Journal
BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1010
Keywords
early life; environmental mismatch; heat stress; hormesis; survival
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Funding
- independent Natural Environment Research Council postdoctoral fellowship [NE/G013888/1]
- European Research Council [AdG 268926]
- NERC [NE/G013888/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G013888/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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It is increasingly recognized that hormetic environmental priming of stress responses can improve resilience to later life stress exposure. However, such phenotypic adjustments may be costly, particularly if the subsequent environment does not match that to which the adjustment was made. Here, we show that hormetic priming to mild heat stress in early life increases survival only when heat stress is again experienced in adulthood; it reduces survival if the stressor is not encountered again. That such costs can occur explains both why the stress response system is not maintained in an upregulated state and why the hormetic adjustment of responses has evolved.
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