Data from: Testing the adaptive potential of yellowtail kingfish to ocean warming and acidification

• Other Authors: Philip Laing Munday (hasAssociationWith), Philip Laing Munday (hasCollector)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: James Cook University
• Subjects: climate change; adaptation; heritability; early life-history; morphology; animal model; pelagic fish; Seriola lalandi; ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/data-from-testing-warming-acidification/1424983; https://researchdata.jcu.edu.au//published/9532c40fbac7d0d99bb34242b0ed8b5a; https://doi.org/10.25903/5c493e2ac3154

This dataset is available as 3 spreadsheets, each saved in both MS Excel (.xlsx) and Open Document (.ods) formats. Abstract [Related Publication]: Estimating the heritability and genotype by environment (GxE) interactions of performance-related traits (e.g. growth, survival, reproduction) under future ocean conditions is necessary for inferring the adaptive potential of marine species to climate change. To date, no studies have used quantitative genetics techniques to test the adaptive potential of large pelagic fishes to the combined effects of elevated water temperature and ocean acidification. We used an experimental approach to test for heritability and GxE interactions in morphological traits of juvenile yellowtail kingfish, Seriola lalandi , under current-day and predicted future ocean conditions. We also tracked the fate of genetic diversity among treatments over the experimental period to test for selection favoring some genotypes over others under elevated temperature and CO 2 . Specifically, we reared kingfish to 21 days post hatching (dph) in a fully crossed 2 x 2 experimental design comprising current-day average summer temperature (21°C) and seawater pCO 2 (500 µatm CO 2 ) and elevated temperature (25°C) and seawater pCO 2 (1,000 µatm CO 2 ). We sampled larvae and juveniles at 1, 11 and 21 dph and identified family of origin of each fish (1,942 in total) by DNA parentage analysis. The animal model was used to estimate heritability of morphological traits and test for GxE interactions among the experimental treatments at 21 dph. Elevated temperature, but not elevated CO 2 affected all morphological traits. Weight, length and other morphological traits in juvenile yellowtail kingfish exhibited low but significant heritability under current day and elevated temperature. However, there were no measurable GxE interactions in morphological traits between the two temperature treatments at 21 dph. Similarly, there was no detectable change in any of the measures of genetic diversity over the duration of ...