Ocean acidification
Bred oysters switch shell carbon under acidification
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Selectively bred Saccostrea glomerata keep more ordered calcite and can use different DIC pathways than wild-type oysters in acidified Australian estuaries.
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Selectively bred Saccostrea glomerata keep more ordered calcite and can use different DIC pathways than wild-type oysters in acidified Australian estuaries.
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Study at a glance
- Design
- Animal / in-vitro — EBSD and δ13C of shells, tissue, and extrapallial fluid from selected versus wild-type oysters at control and acidified leases
- N
- N=12 · 2015 year-class Saccostrea glomerata; six of 12 oysters randomly selected for some isotope maps
- Population
- Selectively bred and wild-type Sydney rock oysters in Australian estuaries
- Outcome
- Selected families keep more ordered calcite and can use different DIC pathways than wild-type oysters under coastal acidification
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Bred oysters switch shell carbon under acidification
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Of 12 oysters sampled, six were randomly selected for analyses.
Of the 12 oysters sampled, six were randomly selected for the analyses, three for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses and three for isotope analyses.
Acidified sites experience pH 7.4–7.5.
The two acidified sites differed in pH at the time of sampling but both experience similar low pH levels (pH 7.4–7.5; see Fitzer et al., ).
Key findings
Acidified seawater was isotopically lighter. Wild-type shells showed more crystallographic disorder. Under acidification shell δ13C went negative, consistent with a switch from HCO3− toward CO32− as the carbon source; selected families already used the CO32−-like signature at control sites.
Methodology
Families bred for QX resistance or fast growth plus wild-type oysters were sampled from control (~pH 8.1–8.2) and acidified (~pH 7.4–7.5) leases; shells were mapped by EBSD and δ13C was measured in seawater, shell, tissue, and extrapallial fluid.
Limitations
Small n (12 oysters, 3 per SEM/isotope analysis) and covarying salinity, temperature, and food mean acidification is not isolated; commercial breeding is not a reef-restoration trial.
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