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Title: | Resistance to prooxidant agent paraquat in the short- and long-lived lines of the seed beetle (Acanthoscelides obtectus) | Authors: | Lazarević, Jelica Đorđević, Mirko Stojković, Biljana Tucić, Nikola |
Keywords: | Acanthoscelides obtectus;Age-specific selection;Paraquat resistance;Rate of ageing;Virgin longevity | Issue Date: | 1-Apr-2013 | Journal: | Biogerontology | Abstract: | In the present study we test whether variation in resistance to paraquat (PQ), a free radical generator, correlates with variation in longevity in two sets of seed beetles (Acanthoscelides obtectus) experimental lines that were selected either for early reproduction and short-life or late reproduction and long-life. Long-lived late reproduction lines (L) showed increased resistance to PQ, while opposite was true for short-lived early reproduction line (E). Striking outcome of the selection for early and late reproduction in A. obtectus is asymmetry of responses to alternate mating schedules. The intensity of response depended on selection regime, sex and PQ dose. Evolution of longevity and PQ resistance was faster in L than E selection regime, and in females than males. To understand how age-specific mortality rates are affected by PQ we decomposed post-stress mortality data (using Gompertz mortality model) into initial mortality rate, which reflects basal vulnerability to stresses and age-specific mortality rate, which concerns the rate of increase in stress vulnerability, i.e. the rate of senescence. By estimating the parameters of the Gompertz mortality model we have shown that longevity reduction caused by PQ was the consequence of the increased baseline mortality rather than a speed up of the rate of ageing. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. |
URI: | https://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1139 | ISSN: | 1389-5729 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10522-013-9417-8 |
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