Association between melanism, physiology and behaviour: A role for the melanocortin system

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 660, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 226-233

  Roulin, Alexandre ^a   Ducrest, Anne Lyse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Barn owl; Evolutionary biology; Glucocorticoid; Melanin based coloration; Melanocortin system

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; EUMELANIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AGGRESSION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BEHAVIOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOSIS; NONHUMAN; OWL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SKIN COLOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MELANOCORTINS; MELANOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 79955932183     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2011.01.036     Document Type: Review

References (44)

1. Almasi, B., Jenni, L., Jenni-Eiermann, S., Roulin, A., 2010. Regulation of stress response is heritable and functionally linked to melanin-based coloration. J. Evol. Biol. 23, 987-996.
2. Almasi, B., Roulin, A., Jenni-Eiermann, S., Jenni, L., 2008. Parental investment and its sensitivity to corticosterone is linked to melanin-based coloration in barn owls. Horm. Behav. 54, 217-223.
3. Bennet, D.C., Lamoreux, M.L., 2003. The color loci of mice - a genetic century. Pigment Cell Res. 16, 333-344.
4. Bertile, F., Oudart, H., Criscuolo, F., Le Maho, Y., Raclot, T., 2003. Hypothalamic gene expression in long-term fasted rats: relationship with body fat. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 303, 1106-1113.
5. Chong, S.Y., Vickaryous, N., Ashe, A., Zamudio, N., Youngson, N., Hemley, S., Stopka, T., Skoultchi, A., Matthews, J., Scott, H.S., de Kretser, D., O'Bryan, M., Blewitt, M., Whitelaw, E., 2007. Modifiers of epigenetic reprogramming show paternal effects in the mouse. Nat. Genet. 39, 614-622.
6. Cropley, J.E., Martin, D.I.K., 2007. Controlling elements are wild cards in the epigenomic deck. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 104, 18879-18880.
7. Dallman, M.F., Akana, S.F., Bhatnagar, S., Bell, M.E., Choi, S., Chu, A., Horsley, C., Levin, N., Meijer, O., Soriano, L.R., Strack, A.M., Viau, V., 1999. Starvation: early signals, sensors, and sequelae. Endocrinology 140, 4015-4023. (Pubitemid 30647096)
8. Dreiss, A., Henry, I., Ruppli, C., Almasi, B., Roulin, A., 2010. Darker eumelanic barn owls better withstand food depletion through resistance to food deprivation and lower appetite. Oecologia 164, 65-71.
9. Ducrest, A.L., Keller, L., Roulin, A., 2008. Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes. Trends Ecol. Evol. 23, 502-510.
10. Eberle, A.N., 1988. The melanotropins: chemistry, physiology and mechanism of action. Karger.
11. Ellis, C., Moar, K.M., Logie, T.J., Ross, A.W., Morgan, P.J., Mercer, J.G., 2008. Diurnal profiles of hypothalamic energy balance gene expression with photoperiod manipulation in the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 294, 1148-1153.
12. Galvan, I., Alonso-Alvarez, C., 2008. An intracellular antioxidant determines the expression of a melanin-based signal in a bird. PlosOne 3, e3335.
13. Gasparini, J., Bize, P., Piault, R., Kazumasa, W., Blount, J., Roulin, A., 2009. Strength and cost of mounting an immune response are associated with a heritable melanin-based color trait in female tawny owls. J. Anim. Ecol. 78, 608-616.
14. Halasz, I., Rittenhouse, P.A., Zorrilla, E.P., Redei, E., 1997. Sexually dimorphic effects of maternal adrenalectomy on hypothalamic corticotrophin- releasing factor, glucocorticoid receptor and anterior pituitary POMC mRNA levels in rat neonates. Dev. Brain Res. 100, 198-204.
15. Hoglund, E., Balm, P.H.M., Winberg, S., 2000. Skin darkening, a potential social signal in subordinate arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus): the regulatory role of brain monoamines and pro-opiomelanocortin-derived peptides. J. Exp. Biol. 203, 1711-1721.
16. Jablonski, N.G., Chaplin, G., 2010. Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation. Proc. Acad. Natl. Sci. USA 107, 8962-8968.
17. Kappeler, L., Zizzari, P., Grouselle, D., Epelbaum, J., Bluet-Pajot, M.T., 2004. Plasma and hypothalamic peptide-hormone levels regulating somatotroph function and energy balance in fed and fasted states: a comparative study in four strains of rats. J. Neuroendocrinol. 16, 980-988. (Pubitemid 40214443)
18. Manceau, M., Domingues, V.S., Linnen, C.R., Rosenblum, E.B., Hoekstra, H., 2010. Convergence in pigmentation at multiple levels: mutations, genes and function. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B365, 2439-2450.
19. Mullen, L.M., Hoekstra, H.E., 2008. Natural selection along an environmental gradient: a classical cline in mouse pigmentation. Evolution 62, 1555-1569.
20. Müller, C., Almasi, B., Roulin, A., Breuner, C.W., Jenni-Eiermann, S., Jenni, L., 2009. Effects of corticosterone pellets on baseline and stress-induced corticosterone and corticosteroid-binding-globulin. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 160, 59-66.
21. Myers, D.A., Bell, P.A., Hyatt, K., Mlynarczyk, M., Ducsay, C.A., 2005. Long term hypoxia enhances proopiomelanocortin processing in the near-term ovine fetus. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 288, R1178-R1184.
22. Palermo, F., Nabissi, M., Cardinaletti, G., Tibaldi, E., Mosconi, G., Polzonetti-Magni, A.M., 2008. Cloning of sole proopiomelanocortin (POMC) cDNA and the effects of stocking density on POMC mRNA and growth rate in sole, Solea solea. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 155, 227-233.
23. Rees, J.L., 2003. Genetics of hair and skin color. Ann. Rev. Genet. 37, 67-90.
24. Roulin, A., 1999. Nonrandom pairing by male barn owls Tyto alba with respect to a female plumage trait. Behav. Ecol. 10, 688-695.
25. Roulin, A., 2004. Proximate basis of the covariation between a melanin-based female ornament and offspring quality. Oecologia 140, 668-675. (Pubitemid 39219051)
26. Roulin, A., 2009. Covariation between eumelanic pigmentation and body mass only under specific conditions. Naturwiss. 96, 375-382.
27. Roulin, A., Altwegg, R., 2007. Breeding rate is associated with pheomelanism in male and with eumelanism in female barn owls. Behav. Ecol. 18, 563-570.
28. Roulin, A., Dijsktra, C., 2003. Genetic and environmental components of variation in eumelanin and phaeomelanin sex-traits in the barn owl. Heredity 90, 359-364. (Pubitemid 36610574)
29. Roulin, A., Altwegg, R., Jensen, H., Steinsland, I., 2010. Sex-dependent selection on an autosomal melanic female ornament promotes the evolution of sex ratio bias. Ecol. Lett. 13, 616-626.
30. Roulin, A., Christe, P., Dijkstra, C., Ducrest, A.-L., Jungi, T.W., 2007. Origin-related, environmental, sex, and age determinants of immunocompetence, susceptibility to ectoparasites and disease symptoms in the barn owl. Biol. J. Lin. Soc. 90, 703-718.
31. Roulin, A., Ducrest, A.-L., Balloux, F., Dijkstra, C., Riols, C., 2003. A female melanin-ornament signals offspring fluctuating asymmetry in the barn owl. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B270, 167-171.
32. Roulin, A., Emaresi, G., Bize, P., Gasparini, J., Piault, R., Ducrest, A.-L., in press. Pale and dark reddish melanic tawny owls differentially regulate the level of blood circulating POMC prohormone in relation to environmental conditions. Oecologica.
33. Roulin, A., Jungi, T.W., Pfister, H., Dijkstra, C., 2000. Female barn owls (Tyto alba) advertise good genes. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B267, 937-941.
34. Roulin, A., Riols, C., Dijkstra, C., Ducrest, A.-L., 2001. Female plumage spottiness and parasite resistance in the barn owl (Tyto alba). Behav. Ecol. 12, 103-110. (Pubitemid 32100803)
35. Rousseau, K., Kauser, S., Pritchard, L.E., Warhurst, A., Oliver, R.L., Slominski, A., Wei, E.T., Thody, A.J., Tobin, D.J., White, A., 2007. Proopiomelanocortin (POMC), the ACTH/ melanocortin precursor, is secreted by human epidermal keratinocytes and melanocytes and stimulates melanogenesis. FASEB 21, 1844-1856. (Pubitemid 46855630)
36. Schioth, H.B., Haitina, T., Ling, M., Ringholm, A., Fredriksson, R., Cerda-Reverter, J.M., Klovins, J., 2005. Evolutionary conservation of the structural, pharmacological, and genomic characteristics of the melanocortin receptor subtypes. Peptides 26, 1886-1900. (Pubitemid 41354547)
37. Schwartz, M.W., Porte, D., 2005. Diabetes, obesity, and the brain. Science 307, 375-379. (Pubitemid 40139972)
38. Slominski, A., 2005. Neuroendocrine system of the skin. Dermatology 211, 199-208. (Pubitemid 41415859)
39. Slominski, A., Wortsman, J., 2000. Neuroendocrinology of the skin. Endocr. Rev. 21, 457-487.
40. Slominski, A., Wortsman, J., Luger, T., Paus, R., Solomon, S., 2000. Corticotropin releasing hormone and proopiomelanocortin involvement in the cutaneous response to stress. Physiol. Rev. 80, 970-1020.
41. Steiner, C.C., Rompler, H., Boettger, L.M., Schoneberg, T., Hoekstra, H.E., 2009. The genetic basis of phenotypic convergence in beach mice: similar pigment patterns but different genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 26, 35-45.
42. Sturm, R.A., 2006. Agolden age of human pigmentation genetics. Trends Genet. 22, 464-468. (Pubitemid 44233716)
43. Valverde, P., Healy, E., Jackson, I., Rees, J.L., Thody, A.J., 1995. Variants of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor gene are associated with red hair and fair skin in humans. Nat. Genet. 11, 328-330.
44. Zbytek, B., Wortsman, J., Slominski, A., 2006. Characterization of a ultraviolet B-induced corticotropin-releasing hormone-proopiomelanocortin system in human melanocytes. Mol. Endocrinol. 20, 2539-2547.