Transcriptome-To-Phenome Response of Larval Eastern Oysters Under Multiple Drivers of Aragonite Undersaturation.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how interactive environmental challenges affect marine species is critical to long-term ecological and economic stability under global change. Marine calcifiers are thought to be vulnerable to ocean acidification (OA; elevated pCO₂); active dissolution of aragonite (Ωar) is associated with disrupted development, survivorship, and gene expression in bivalve larvae, resulting in an early life-stage bottleneck. Dynamic carbonate chemistry in coastal systems emphasizes the importance of multiple stressors, e.g., warming and low salinity events may change organismal responses relative to OA alone. We exposed Eastern oyster larvae (Crassostrea virginica) to a full-factorial experimental design using two temperatures (23°C and 27°C), salinities (17 an

SUBMITTER: Gurr SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11813985 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature