Antioxidant response of the hard shelled mussel Mytilus coruscus exposed to reduced pH and oxygen concentration ...

Ocean acidification (OA) and hypoxic events are increasing worldwide problems, their interactive effects have not been well clarified, although their co-occurrence is prevalent. The East China Sea (the Yangtze River estuary area) suffers from not only coastal hypoxia but also pH fluctuation, represe...

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Main Authors: Sui, Yanming, Hu, Menghong, Shang, Yueyong, Wu, Fangli, Huang, Xizhi, Dupont, Sam, Storch, Daniela, Pörtner, Hans-Otto, Li, Jiale, Lu, Weiqun, Wang, Youji
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2017
Subjects:
pH
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.873540
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.873540
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Summary:Ocean acidification (OA) and hypoxic events are increasing worldwide problems, their interactive effects have not been well clarified, although their co-occurrence is prevalent. The East China Sea (the Yangtze River estuary area) suffers from not only coastal hypoxia but also pH fluctuation, representing an ideal study site to explore the combined effect of OA and hypoxia on marine bivalves. We experimentally evaluated the antioxidant response of the mussel Mytilus coruscus exposed to three pH levels (8.1, 7.7 and 7.3) at two dissolved oxygen (DO) levels (2.0 mg/L and 6.0 mg/L) for 72h. Activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, acid phosphatase, and alkaline phosphatase and levels of malondialdehyde were measured in gills and hemolymph. All enzymatic activities in hemolymph and gills followed a similar pattern throughout the experiment duration. Generally, low DO showed greater effects on enzyme activities than elevated CO2. Significant interactions between DO, pH and time were ... : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2016) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation is 2017-03-15. ...