Seawater carbonate chemistry and larval response to parental low pH exposure in the pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

• Main Authors: Venkataraman, Yaamini R, Spencer, Laura H, Roberts, Steven B
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2019
• Subjects: Animalia; Coast and continental shelf; Containers and aquaria 20-1000 L or < 1 m**2; Crassostrea gigas; Laboratory experiment; Mollusca; North Atlantic; Pelagos; Reproduction; FOS Medical biotechnology; Single species; Temperate; Zooplankton; Type; Species; Registration number of species; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Identification; Volume; Eggs; Larvae; Hatching rate; Treatment; Alkalinity, total; pH; Salinity; Temperature, water; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Aragonite saturation state; Calcite saturation state; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Pacific; Ocean acidification; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.920548; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.920548

As negative effects of ocean acidification are experienced by coastal ecosystems, there is a growing trend to investigate the effect ocean acidification has on multiple generations. Parental exposure to ocean acidification has been shown to induce larval carryover effects, but whether acute exposure to a stressor as an adult can influence the larval generation long after the stress has been removed has yet to be tested. To assess how a temporary exposure to experimental ocean acidification affects the ecologically and commercially relevant Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, adult oysters were exposed to either low pH (7.31 +- 0.02) or ambient pH (7.82 +- 0.02) conditions for 7 wk. Oysters were then held for 8 wk in ambient conditions, and subsequently reproductively conditioned for 4 wk at ambient pH. After conditioning, the oysters were strip-spawned to create four families based on maternal and paternal ocean acidification exposure. The number of D-hinge larvae was counted 18 h postfertilization. A sex-specific brood stock response was observed, where female exposure to low pH conditions resulted in fewer D-hinge larvae. This study demonstrates that the effects of ocean acidification can last beyond the time from when the environmental perturbation is experienced. Broadening the understanding of environmental memory will be valuable when considering organismal ability to persist in the face of environmental change. : 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 2020-07-07.The “Female” and “Male” notes for the carbonate chemistry data reflect the use of planned crosses to create half-sibling families and the subsequent investigation of male and female carryover effects on larvae. However, the males and females were held in the same tanks for the 7-week pH experiment. Additionally, the larvae themselves were spawned and reared in ambient pH conditions four months after the adult exposure ended.