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TYLODINA PERVERSA Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2003, 78, 429–438 Blackwell Science, LtdOxford, UKBIJBiological Journal of the Linnean Society0024-4066The Linnean Society of London, 2003 78 Original Article M. A. BECERRO ET AL. TYLODINA PERVERSA Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2003, 78, 429–438. With 5 figures : PREDATOR OR FORAGER? Can a sponge feeder be a herbivore? Tylodina perversa (Gastropoda) feeding on Aplysina aerophoba (Demospongiae) MIKEL A. BECERRO1*, XAVIER TURON2, MARIA J. URIZ1 and JOSE TEMPLADO3 1Center for Advanced Studies (CEAB, CSIC), E-17300 Blanes, GI, Spain 2Department of Animal Biology (Invertebrates), University of Barcelona, 645 Diagonal Avenue, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain 3National Museum of Natural History (CSIC), Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, E-28006 Madrid, Spain Received 1 May 2002; accepted for publication 30 October 2002 Feeding biology in mollusks has important biological, ecological and evolutionary implications because many of the characteristics we observe in mollusks arise from their co-evolution with diet organisms. We investigated the rela- tionship between the opisthobranch Tylodina perversa and the sponges Aplysina aerophoba and Aplysina cavernicola in order to ascertain the trophic interactions between them. The opisthobranch preferred specimens of Aplysina aero- phoba inhabiting shallow overdeep waters, ectosome of Aplysina aerophoba over choanosome, and showed no pref- erence for Aplysina cavernicola. The sponge Aplysina cavernicola lacks the cyanobacteria abundant in the ectosome of Aplysina aerophoba. Our study shows that the opisthobranch Tylodina perversa actively selects for sponges or sponge zones with high concentration of cyanobacteria, i.e. only a fraction of the ingested material is of animal origin. Addition of cyanobacteria to symbiont-free sponge material induced a shift in mollusk preference. Our results cast doubt over the widely recognized qualification of Tylodina perversa as a carnivorous sponge feeder and show evidence that cyanobacteria determine the opisthobranch food selection. Whether this is an isolated example of how sym- bionts may determine trophic interactions between hosts and predators or it is widespread in benthic organisms remains an open question that requires further investigation. © 2003 The Linnean Society of London. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2003, 78, 429–438. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: Aplysinid sponges – predator–prey interactions – sponge/microsymbiont/ opisthobranch co-evolution – trophic relationships. INTRODUCTION from predation and are low preference prey for other generalist predators (Faulkner, 1992; Avila, 1995; Mollusks are extremely diverse organisms that dis- Cimino & Ghiselin, 1999; Cimino et al., 2001). Many play numerous ecological strategies. These strategies prey organisms are chemically defended and the are based upon key characteristics such as their shell, capacity of the mollusk to sequester secondary meta- chemical defenses, feeding biology, or reproduction bolites from their prey is a well-known trait often and life cycles, among others. Feeding biology is a associated with shell reduction or loss, and has con- research area with important biological, ecological tributed to drive the evolution of this group (Faulkner and evolutionary implications because many charac- & Ghiselin, 1983; Cimino & Ghiselin, 1998). Feeding teristics that we observe in mollusks arise from their biology has certainly been a major factor in gastropod co-evolution with diet organisms. For example, success (Kohn, 1983) and is an important topic when opisthobranch mollusks are mainly specialized in considering the overall evolution of gastropods, par- feeding on organisms that are somehow protected ticularly opisthobranchs (Willan, 1984). Opisthobranchs are excellent organisms for the study of evolutionary phenomena (Cimino & Ghiselin, *Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] 1998, 1999). With over 4000 known species belonging © 2003 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2003, 78, 429–438 429 430 M. A. BECERRO ET AL. to several orders, some key characteristics in Opistho- insights on the feeding biology and ecology of Tylodina branchs, such as shell reduction or loss, have occurred perversa and open up new ecological and evolutionary independently among lineages (Gosliner & Ghiselin, perspectives not only for sponge feeders, but also for 1984). Feeding habits of the genus Tylodina may be other predator groups feeding on prey with important particularly valuable from an evolutionary perspec- symbiotic populations. tive because Tylodina is among the most primitive genera of the entire Opisthobranchia (Willan, 1987). Members of this genus exclusively feed on sponges of MATERIAL AND METHODS the family Aplysinellidae, order Verongida (Willan, STUDY SITE AND QUANTIFICATION TECHNIQUES 1984, 1998). North-western Mediterranean rocky bottoms may Els Caials is a small bay in the natural park of Cape locally hold large populations of the sponges Aplysina Creus, next to the Spanish–French Mediterranean aerophoba Schmidt 1862 and Aplysina cavernicola border. The bay includes a shallow flat area up to a (Vacelet 1958) (e.g. Uriz et al., 1992) and the tylodinid depth of 6 m and a deep coralligenous reef area at a Tylodina perversa (Gmelin, 1790) (Cervera et al., depth of 30 m. The shallow area contains numerous 1988; Doneddu & Manunza, 1990). The two sponge sand zones, boulders, and rocks dominated by sea- species share similar skeleton and morphology weeds and the seagrass Posidonia oceanica, sea (Vacelet, 1959), secondary chemistry (Ciminiello et al., urchins and sponges including abundant Aplysina 1997) and may overlap in their depth distribution. aerophoba. The deep coralligenous reef area contains These species are so similar that there is controversy a number of big platforms with small overhangs as to whether they are two distinct species or just two and crevices dominated by the alga Lythophyllum ecotypes of the same species (Voultsiadou-Koukoura, incrustans and many ascidians, bryozoans and 1987). Despite these similarities, A. aerophoba and sponges, including Aplysina cavernicola. A natural A. cavernicola have contrasting ecological require- channel with vertical walls and boulders at its bottom ments (Wilkinson & Vacelet, 1979) and also differ in connects these two areas. We observed A. aerophoba some secondary metabolites that are species specific in the channel down to a depth of 15 m while (Ciminiello et al., 1997). Although the two sponge A. cavernicola was not observed in the same locality species may overlap in their depth distribution, until a depth of 30 m. A. aerophoba has more photophilous preferences than We used nine 5 m-long random transects at depths A. cavernicola, which is usually found at greater between 0–5, 5–10 and 10–15 m (three transects at depths or in caves and under overhangs in shallow each depth) to quantify the number of Aplysina aero- waters. Also, A. cavernicola lacks the photosynthetic phoba. Preliminary visual inspections showed that cyanobacteria symbionts present in A. aerophoba Aplysina cavernicola is restricted to the 30-m corallig- (Vacelet, 1970, 1975). Tylodina perversa lives in close enous reef area so we did not quantify its abundance association with the sponge Aplysina aerophoba (Ros, along a depth gradient. To measure the opisthobranch 1976; Doneddu & Manunza, 1995) on which it feeds distribution in the field, we haphazardly selected 20 without producing the death of the sponge. Tylodina specimens of A. aerophoba at depths between 0–5, perversa is highly cryptic on Aplysina aerophoba from 5–10 and 10–15 m, and A. cavernicola at depths of which it incorporates many chemicals (Teeyapant 28–32 m. We recorded the size of these sponges by et al., 1993) including the pigment uranidine respon- measuring their maximum diameter and counted the sible for the rapid blackening of the sponge and number of T. perversa per sponge. We used analysis of nudibranch when they are exposed to air (Cimino variance (ANOVA) to test for differences in the abun- et al., 1984; Cimino & Sodano, 1994). The opistho- dance of A. aerophoba along depth, and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to test for differences in the branch also has aerothionin - a compound exclusive to A. cavernicola – and it is unclear whether T. perversa number of T. perversa on Aplysina spp., the covariate produces aerothionin within its tissues by biotransfor- being sponge size. mation or is also able to feed on A. cavernicola and incorporate this compound from the diet (Ebel, Marin & Proksch, 1999). FEEDING CHOICE EXPERIMENTS Our study aims to investigate patterns of consump- We ran a series of choice experiments to determine the tion of Tylodina perversa in relation to (1) the two Apl- preferences of Tylodina perversa and to test possible ysina species present in the Mediterranean, (2) the causes of such preferences. We ran all the choice ecological distribution of the prey species, (3) the experiments in the laboratory with a continuous flow diverse parts of the sponge, and (4) the presence of system delivering seawater directly from the sea. All cyanobacterial symbionts and cell types producing the sponge and opisthobranch specimens were collected in secondary metabolites of the sponge. Our data provide Els Caials, placed in a cooler with seawater and an air- © 2003 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2003, 78, 429–438 TYLODINA PERVERSA: PREDATOR OR FORAGER? 431 stone, and transferred to the aquarium with running trophotometric equations
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