DataSheet1_Access to Cleaning Services Alters Fish Physiology Under Parasite Infection and Ocean Acidification.pdf

• Main Authors: José Ricardo Paula, Tiago Repolho, Alexandra S. Grutter, Rui Rosa
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Physiology; Exercise Physiology; Nutritional Physiology; Reproduction; Cell Physiology; Systems Physiology; Animal Physiology - Biophysics; Animal Physiology - Cell; Animal Physiology - Systems; Comparative Physiology; Physiology not elsewhere classified; cooperation; cleaning mutualism; ocean acidification; climate change; metabolism; adaptation; Lizard Island; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.859556.s001; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/DataSheet1_Access_to_Cleaning_Services_Alters_Fish_Physiology_Under_Parasite_Infection_and_Ocean_Acidification_pdf/20023631

Cleaning symbioses are key mutualistic interactions where cleaners remove ectoparasites and tissues from client fishes. Such interactions elicit beneficial effects on clients’ ecophysiology, with cascading effects on fish diversity and abundance. Ocean acidification (OA), resulting from increasing CO 2 concentrations, can affect the behavior of cleaner fishes making them less motivated to inspect their clients. This is especially important as gnathiid fish ectoparasites are tolerant to ocean acidification. Here, we investigated how access to cleaning services, performed by the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus, affect individual client’s (damselfish, Pomacentrus amboinensis) aerobic metabolism in response to both experimental parasite infection and OA. Access to cleaning services was modulated using a long-term removal experiment where cleaner wrasses were consistently removed from patch reefs around Lizard Island (Australia) for 17 years or left undisturbed. Only damselfish with access to cleaning stations had a negative metabolic response to parasite infection (maximum metabolic rate—ṀO 2Max and both factorial and absolute aerobic scope). Moreover, after an acclimation period of 10 days to high CO 2 (∼1,000 µatm CO 2 ), the fish showed a decrease in factorial aerobic scope, being the lowest in fish without the access to cleaners. We propose that stronger positive selection for parasite tolerance might be present in reef fishes without the access to cleaners, but this might come at a cost, as readiness to deal with parasites can impact their response to other stressors, such as OA.