Embryonic diapause
Purpose
Mammals use this if they do not want to risk their own lives during unfavourable and/or environmental conditions. Mammals use embryonic diapause to time the birth of their offspring for favorable metabolic and/or environmental conditions. Reproduction has a large energy cost and it is to a female’s benefit to have ideal conditions (e.g. available food, mild weather, previous offspring weaned) to ensure the survival of her offspring before giving birth.
Types
Two types of embryonic diapause have been identified.
Facultative diapause
Artemia franciscana cyst measuring roughly 200 to 250 micrometers
Facultative diapause is a mechanism that is associated with metabolic stress, normally lactation. If a female copulates while still lactating for her original offspring, the sucking stimulus will cause the embryos to enter into diapause. This is known to occur in some rodents, insectivores and marsupials.
Facultative diapause can also be referred to as facultative arrest. Another example of diapause associated with metabolic stress associated is that exhibited by the brine shrimp, Artemia franciscana. The adult female which usually gives birth to live offspring (nauplii) desists and instead produces encysted embryos in the fall season which is characterized by low temperature and high salinity. These embryos are known to have very low metabolic activities and can survive up to 17 months of anoxia (complete lack of oxygen). In favorable conditions, the ‘cysts’ will hatch and release nauplii to continue their life cycle.
Obligate diapause
Obligate diapause is a mechanism that allows mammals to time the birth of their offspring for favorable environmental conditions. This mechanism occurs as a regular part of the reproductive cycle in many of the pinnipeds, mustelids, ursids, armadillos, one species of fruit bat, and the roe deer. Obligate diapause can also be referred to as obligate arrest.
For example, Roe Deer mate in July or August but don’t give birth until May or June of the following year, usually to twins of opposite sexes.
Remarks
The term Diapause is also used to refer to the temporary partial or complete metabolic suspension in various life stages of insects and plants.
References
^ Desmarais, J.A.; V. Bordignon, F.L. Lopes, L.C. Smith and B.D. Murph (2004). “The escape of the mink embryo from obligate diapause”. Biology of Reproduction 70 (3): 662670. doi:10.1095/biolreprod.103.023572. PMID 14585805. http://www.biolreprod.org/cgi/content/full/70/3/662. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
^ a b Renfree, M.B.; B. Shaw (2000). “Diapause”. Annual Review of Physiology 62: 353375. doi:10.1146/annurev.physiol.62.1.353. PMID 10845095.
^ “Class Mammalia”. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Mammalia.html. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
^ “Implantation”. University of Wyoming. http://www.uwyo.edu/wjm/Repro/implant.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
^ a b Daniel, J.C., Jr. (1970). “Dormant embryos of mammals”. BioScience 20 (7): 411415. doi:10.2307/1295231. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-3568(19700401)20:7<411:DEOM>2.0.CO;2-E&size=LARGE. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
^ Clegg, J.S.; S.A. Jackson (1998). “The metabolic status of quiescent and diapause embryos of Artemia franciscana (Kellogg)”. Archives in Hydrobiology 52: 425439. http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=054806267&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
^ Lopes,, Flavia L; Jolle A Desmarais and Bruce D Murphy (2004). “Embryonic diapause and its regulation”. Reproduction 128 (3): 669678. doi:10.1530/rep.1.00444. PMID 14585805. http://www.biolreprod.org/cgi/content/full/70/3/662. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
“Roe Deer Research Group”. http://www.roedeer.com. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
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