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Persistence Parameter: a Reliable Measurement for Behavioral Responses of Medaka (Oryzias latipes) to Environmental Stress

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Online monitoring systems provided a significant evidence for feasibility of the stepwise behavioral response model in detecting the effects of organophosphorus pesticides on movements of medaka (Oryzias latipes), being able to determine the state of indicator organisms, “no effect,” “stimulation,” “acclimation,” “adjustment (readjustment),” and “toxic effect.” Though the stepwise behavioral response model postulated that an organism displays a time-dependent sequence of compensatory stepwise behavioral response during exposure to pollutants above their respective thresholds of resistance, it was still a conceptual model based on tendency only in analysis. In this study, the phenomenon of bacterial persistence was used to interpret the relationship between the stepwise behavioral response model and the environmental stress caused by both exposure time and different treatments. Quantitative measurements of the stepwise behavioral response model led to a simple mathematical description of the threshold switch, which evaluated the effects of environmental stress on behavioral responses to decide the tendency. The adjustment ability correlated to “persisters (p)” is very important for test individuals to overcome the “threshold” from the outside environmental stress. The computational modeling results suggested that “persister (p),” as described in the general equations of bacterial persistence model in changing environments, illustrated behavior acclimation and adjustment (or readjustment) clearly. Consequently, the persistence parameter, p, was critical in addressing for medaka to be adapted to fluctuating environments under different environmental stress.

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21107135).

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    1. College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Wenhuadong Rd 88, Lixia District, Ji’nan, 250014, People’s Republic of China

      Li Yin, Haitang Yang, Guiyun Si, Qing Ren, Rongshu Fu, Biao Zhang, Xu Zhang, Xiaoguang Wang, Pingping Qi & Zongming Ren

    2. Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, People’s Republic of China

      Chunlei Xia

    3. Department of Biological Sciences, Pusan National University, Pusan, 609735, Republic of Korea

      Tae-Soo Chon & Hungsoo Kim

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    • Measurements of behavior movement led to a simple mathematical description of threshold switch

    • “Persister (p)” illustrated behavior “acclimation” and “adjustment (or readjustment)” clearly

    • “Persisters (p)” is important for medaka to overcome “threshold” from the environmental stress

    Haitang Yang contributed equally to this work.

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    Yin, L., Yang, H., Si, G. et al. Persistence Parameter: a Reliable Measurement for Behavioral Responses of Medaka (Oryzias latipes) to Environmental Stress. Environ Model Assess 21, 159–167 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-015-9458-2

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