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: Received: 15 September 2023 / Approved: 18 September 2023 / Online: 19 September 2023 (04:21:39 CEST)
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Östman, C.; Dülken, L.; Maassen, C.; Walkenbach, M.; Dupont, S.T. Subtle Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Larval Development of the Nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca (Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). Preprints2023, 2023091228. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1228.v1
Östman, C.; Dülken, L.; Maassen, C.; Walkenbach, M.; Dupont, S.T. Subtle Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Larval Development of the Nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca (Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). Preprints 2023, 2023091228. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1228.v1
Östman, C.; Dülken, L.; Maassen, C.; Walkenbach, M.; Dupont, S.T. Subtle Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Larval Development of the Nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca (Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). Preprints2023, 2023091228. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1228.v1
APA Style
Östman, C., Dülken, L., Maassen, C., Walkenbach, M., & Dupont, S.T. (2023). Subtle Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Larval Development of the Nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca (Nudibranchia, Gastropoda). Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1228.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Östman, C., Moritz Walkenbach and Sam Timmy Dupont. 2023 "Subtle Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Larval Development of the Nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca (Nudibranchia, Gastropoda)" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1228.v1
Abstract
The body of knowledge on ocean acidification gives a better understanding of biological sensitivity to low pH. Key parameters such as life-history strategies or local adaptation were identified as keys to predict species sensitivity and resolve previously some of the unexplained species- and population-specific differences. Encapsulation has been suggested as one of these keys as it exposed the embryo to low pH conditions, or ontogenetic hypercapnia, leading to physiological adaptation. We tested this hypothesis on the nudibranch Aeolidiella glauca by exposing their egg-strings containing large number of eggs to two different pH (8.1 and 7.3). The fertilized eggs developed 1 egg-cell, over early cleavage up to morula, blastula, gastrula, rhomboid-shaped rotating gastrula, early rotating veliger larvae with developed shell, to free-swimming well developed veliger larvae. Despite a corrosive environment, the exposure to low pH had no significant effect on the developmental rate. The only significant effects were a slightly smaller and narrower shell in larvae raised at low pH as compared to the high pH. Our results showed a remarkable resilient to low pH in a calcifying mollusc and support the idea that ontogenic hypercapnia is leading to low sensitivity to ocean acidification.
Keywords
development; nudibranch; acidification
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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