Does sex really matter? Explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses
Ocean acidification (OA) poses a major threat to marine ecosystems globally, having significant ecological and economic importance. The number and complexity of experiments examining the effects of OA has substantially increased over the past decade, in an attempt to address multi-stressor interacti...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0761 2024-06-23T07:55:49+00:00 Does sex really matter? Explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses Ellis, Robert P. Davison, William Queirós, Ana M. Kroeker, Kristy J. Calosi, Piero Dupont, Sam Spicer, John I. Wilson, Rod W. Widdicombe, Steve Urbina, Mauricio A. Natural Environment Research Council Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0761 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0761 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0761 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Biology Letters volume 13, issue 2, page 20160761 ISSN 1744-9561 1744-957X journal-article 2017 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0761 2024-06-10T04:15:14Z Ocean acidification (OA) poses a major threat to marine ecosystems globally, having significant ecological and economic importance. The number and complexity of experiments examining the effects of OA has substantially increased over the past decade, in an attempt to address multi-stressor interactions and long-term responses in an increasing range of aquatic organisms. However, differences in the response of males and females to elevated p CO 2 have been investigated in fewer than 4% of studies to date, often being precluded by the difficulty of determining sex non-destructively, particularly in early life stages. Here we highlight that sex can significantly impact organism responses to OA, differentially affecting physiology, reproduction, biochemistry and ultimately survival. What is more, these impacts do not always conform to ecological theory based on differential resource allocation towards reproduction, which would predict females to be more sensitive to OA owing to the higher production cost of eggs compared with sperm. Therefore, non-sex-specific studies may overlook subtle but ecologically significant differences in the responses of males and females to OA, with consequences for forecasting the fate of natural populations in a near-future ocean. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification The Royal Society Biology Letters 13 2 20160761 |
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Ocean acidification (OA) poses a major threat to marine ecosystems globally, having significant ecological and economic importance. The number and complexity of experiments examining the effects of OA has substantially increased over the past decade, in an attempt to address multi-stressor interactions and long-term responses in an increasing range of aquatic organisms. However, differences in the response of males and females to elevated p CO 2 have been investigated in fewer than 4% of studies to date, often being precluded by the difficulty of determining sex non-destructively, particularly in early life stages. Here we highlight that sex can significantly impact organism responses to OA, differentially affecting physiology, reproduction, biochemistry and ultimately survival. What is more, these impacts do not always conform to ecological theory based on differential resource allocation towards reproduction, which would predict females to be more sensitive to OA owing to the higher production cost of eggs compared with sperm. Therefore, non-sex-specific studies may overlook subtle but ecologically significant differences in the responses of males and females to OA, with consequences for forecasting the fate of natural populations in a near-future ocean. |
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Ellis, Robert P. Davison, William Queirós, Ana M. Kroeker, Kristy J. Calosi, Piero Dupont, Sam Spicer, John I. Wilson, Rod W. Widdicombe, Steve Urbina, Mauricio A. |
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Ellis, Robert P. Davison, William Queirós, Ana M. Kroeker, Kristy J. Calosi, Piero Dupont, Sam Spicer, John I. Wilson, Rod W. Widdicombe, Steve Urbina, Mauricio A. Does sex really matter? Explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses |
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Ellis, Robert P. Davison, William Queirós, Ana M. Kroeker, Kristy J. Calosi, Piero Dupont, Sam Spicer, John I. Wilson, Rod W. Widdicombe, Steve Urbina, Mauricio A. |
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Does sex really matter? Explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses |
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Does sex really matter? Explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses |
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Does sex really matter? Explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses |
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does sex really matter? explaining intraspecies variation in ocean acidification responses |
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