Du Weiguo's team reveals the latitudinal pattern and mechanism of lizard energy metabolism in response to temperature domestication

On February 9, 2022, Sun Baojun and other researchers from the Ecological Adaptation and Conservation Biology Research Group of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences published the title "Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical" online in Ecological Monographs, a well-known ecological journal with a history of more than 90 years.

The geographic pattern of biological function response to temperature variability can provide a theoretical basis for animal protection in the context of climate warming

Energy metabolism is the most important physiological function, and its temperature acclimation response occurs at multiple biological levels, including metabolic enzymes, cells, organ systems, and the whole organism

Further studies revealed that the two temperate grass lizard species adopted different metabolic regulation mechanisms: the widely distributed northern grass lizard changed liver organ size, while the narrower white striped lizard was dependent on mitochondrial respiration, metabolic enzymes, proteome and metabolome.

This study focuses on the frontiers of climate warming, combines basic scientific issues, applies classical methods of physiological ecology and cutting-edge omics methods, and reveals the patterns and patterns of species response to temperature variability in mid- and high-latitude regions from individual to omics levels.

Article link: https://esajournals.

Figure 1 The multi-level domestication response of grass lizard energy metabolism in mainland China

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