We compared lipid dynamics and physiological responses during simulated wintering and transition to spring conditions in the cold-adapted blue mussel Mytilus edulis and the warm-water species oyster Crassostrea.
To simulate overwintering, animals were housed at 0 °C, 4 °C, and 9 °C for 3 months, then gradually switched to 20 °C and held at 20 °C for 5 weeks under spring-summer conditions. was simulated. Changes in lipid class and fatty acid composition were associated with clearance rates and oxygen consumption. We found that there are large interspecies differences in intriglyceride (TAG) metabolism during wintering. Mussels used her TAG stores in the digestive glands for energy metabolism or reproductive processes during the winter, whereas oysters did not accumulate large TAG stores prior to wintering. His TAG in mussels contained higher concentrations of 20:5n-3 compared to oysters and diet. This helps offset the cold effect by lowering the melting point of TAG and increasing the availability of cold storage fat. Mussels appear to be able to mobilize 20:5n-3 and 18:4n-3 more than other fatty acids. We also found that both mussels underwent major remodeling of membrane phospholipids. Unsaturation indices decreased in the gills and digestive glands of both species during the early stages of warming, mainly due to decreases in 22:6n-3 and 20:5n-3. In the digestive glands, the desaturation index did not increase with decreasing temperature beyond a threshold reached at 9 °C, whereas it was completely negative in the gills, as predicted by the homeobiscus fit. ratio was observed. The presence of digestive enzymes and acids in the microenvironment of the digestive gland may create specific requirements for membrane stability.
However, That oysters had a lower metabolic rate than mussels, as predicted by Halbert's theory of membranes as metabolic pacemakers, is consistent with the lower desaturation index of their lipids.
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