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Behavioural effects of temperature on ectothermic animals: unifying thermal physiology and behavioural plasticity

View ORCID ProfilePaul K. Abram, Guy Boivin, Joffrey Moiroux, Jacques Brodeur
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/056051
Paul K. Abram
aInstitut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
bCentre de Recherche et de Développement de St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada
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Guy Boivin
bCentre de Recherche et de Développement de St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada
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Joffrey Moiroux
aInstitut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
bCentre de Recherche et de Développement de St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada
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Jacques Brodeur
aInstitut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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Abstract

Temperature imposes significant constraints on ectothermic animals, and these organisms have evolved numerous adaptations to respond to these constraints. While the impacts of temperature on the physiology of ectotherms have been extensively studied, there are currently no frameworks available that outline the multiple and often simultaneous pathways by which temperature can affect behaviour. Drawing from the literature on insects, we propose a unified framework that should apply to all ectothermic animals, generalizing temperature's behavioural effects into (1) Kinetic effects, resulting from temperature's bottom-up constraining influence on metabolism and neurophysiology over a range of timescales (from short-to long-term), and (2) Integrated effects, where the top-down integration of thermal information intentionally initiates or modifies a behaviour (behavioural thermoregulation, thermal orientation, thermosensory behavioural adjustments). We discuss the difficulty in distinguishing adaptive behavioural changes due to temperature from behavioural changes that are the products of constraints, and propose two complementary approaches to help make this distinction and class behaviours according to our framework: (i) behavioural kinetic null modeling and (ii) behavioural ecology experiments using temperature-insensitive mutants. Our framework should help to guide future research on the complex relationship between temperature and behaviour in ectothermic animals.

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Behavioural effects of temperature on ectothermic animals: unifying thermal physiology and behavioural plasticity
Paul K. Abram, Guy Boivin, Joffrey Moiroux, Jacques Brodeur
bioRxiv 056051; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/056051
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Behavioural effects of temperature on ectothermic animals: unifying thermal physiology and behavioural plasticity
Paul K. Abram, Guy Boivin, Joffrey Moiroux, Jacques Brodeur
bioRxiv 056051; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/056051

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