Griffiths, Joanna S; Pan, Tien-Chien Francis; Kelly, Morgan W (2019): Seawater carbonate chemistry and respiration rates, protein and lipid content of Balanophyllia elegans [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.920209
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Ocean acidification (OA), the global decrease in surface water pH from absorption of anthropogenic CO2, may put many marine taxa at risk. However, populations that experience extreme localized conditions, and are adapted to these conditions predicted in the global ocean in 2100, may be more tolerant to future OA. By identifying locally adapted populations, researchers can examine the mechanisms used to cope with decreasing pH. One oceanographic process that influences pH, is wind driven upwelling. Here we compare two Californian populations of the coral Balanophyllia elegans from distinct upwelling regimes, and test their physiological and transcriptomic responses to experimental seawater acidification. We measured respiration rates, protein and lipid content, and gene expression in corals from both populations exposed to pH levels of 7.8 and 7.4 for 29 days. Corals from the population that experiences lower pH due to high upwelling, maintained the same respiration rate throughout the exposure. In contrast, corals from the low upwelling site had reduced respiration rates, protein content, and lipid‐class content at low pH exposure, suggesting they have depleted their energy reserves. Using RNA‐Seq, we found that corals from the high upwelling site upregulated genes involved in calcium ion binding and ion transport, most likely related to pH homeostasis and calcification. In contrast, corals from the low upwelling site downregulated stress response genes at low pH exposure. Divergent population responses to low pH observed in B. elegans highlight the importance of multi‐population studies for predicting a species' response to future OA.
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Griffiths, Joanna S; Pan, Tien-Chien Francis; Kelly, Morgan W (2019): Differential responses to ocean acidification between populations of Balanophyllia elegans corals from high and low upwelling environments. Molecular Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15050
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Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James C; Gentili, Bernard; Hagens, Mathilde; Hofmann, Andreas; Mueller, Jens-Daniel; Proye, Aurélien; Rae, James; Soetaert, Karline (2019): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.2.12. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=seacarb
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Median Latitude: 36.665875 * Median Longitude: -121.806485 * South-bound Latitude: 34.417750 * West-bound Longitude: -123.711441 * North-bound Latitude: 38.914000 * East-bound Longitude: -119.901530
Date/Time Start: 2016-06-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2016-06-30T00:00:00
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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.
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