Seawater carbonate chemistry and survival, growth and physiological parameters of Musculista senhousia, supplement to: Zhao, Liqiang; Liu, Baozhan; An, Wei; Deng, Yuewen; Lu, Yanan; Liu, Bingxin; Wang, Li; Cong, Yuting; Sun, Xin (2019): Assessing the impact of elevated pCO2 within and across generations in a highly invasive fouling mussel (Musculista senhousia). Science of the Total Environment, 689, 322-331

• Main Authors: Zhao, Liqiang, Liu, Baozhan, An, Wei, Deng, Yuewen, Lu, Yanan, Liu, Bingxin, Wang, Li, Cong, Yuting, Sun, Xin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2019
• Subjects: Animalia; Behaviour; Benthic animals; Benthos; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria <20 L; Coast and continental shelf; Development; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Mollusca; Mortality/Survival; Musculista senhousia; North Pacific; Other metabolic rates; Reproduction; FOS Medical biotechnology; Respiration; Single species; Temperate; Type; Species; Registration number of species; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Time in days; Treatment; Survival; Shell length; Shell length, standard deviation; Condition index; Condition index, standard deviation; Spawning rate; Spawning rate, standard deviation; Clearance rate; Clearance rate, standard deviation; Absorption efficiency; Absorption efficiency, standard deviation; Respiration rate, oxygen; Respiration rate, standard deviation; Ammonia excretion; Ammonia excretion, standard deviation; Oxygen consumed/Nitrogen excreted ratio; Oxygen consumed/nitrogen excreted ratio, standard deviation; Scope for growth; Scope for growth, standard deviation; Egg size; Egg size, standard deviation; Survival rate, standard deviation; Metamorphosis rate; Metamorphosis rate, standard deviation; Duration; Alkalinity, total; Temperature, water; pH; Salinity; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Aragonite saturation state; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Calcite saturation state; Experiment; Potentiometric titration; Potentiometric; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Pacific; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.909061; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909061

Marine biofouling by the swiftly spreading invasive mussel (Musculista senhousia) has caused serious ecological and economic consequences in the global coastal waters. However, the fate of this highly invasive fouling species in a rapidly acidifying ocean remains unknown. Here, we demonstrated the impacts of ocean acidification within and across generations, to understand whether M. senhousia has the capacity to acclimate to changing ocean conditions. During the gonadal development, exposure of mussels to elevated pCO2 caused significant decreases of survival, growth performance and condition index, and shifted the whole-organism energy budget by inflating energy expenses to fuel compensatory processes, eventually impairing the success of spawning. Yet, rapid transgenerational acclimation occurred during the early life history stage and persisted into adulthood. Eggs spawned from CO2-exposed mussels were significantly bigger compared with those from non-CO2-exposed mussels, indicating increased maternal provisioning into eggs and hence conferring larvae resilience under harsh conditions. Larvae with a prior history of transgenerational exposure to elevated pCO2 developed faster and had a higher survival than those with no prior history of CO2 exposure. Transgenerational exposure significantly increased the number of larvae completing metamorphosis. While significant differences in shell growth were no longer observed during juvenile nursery and adult grow-out, transgenerationally exposed mussels displayed improved survival in comparison to non-transgenerationally exposed mussels. Metabolic plasticity arose following transgenerational acclimation, generating more energy available for fitness-related functions. Overall, the present study demonstrates the remarkable ability of M. senhousia to respond plastically and acclimate rapidly to changing ocean conditions. : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2019) 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 by seacarb is 2019-11-20.