The Marine Gastropod Crepidula fornicata Remains Resilient to Ocean Acidification Across Two Life History Stages.

ABSTRACT: Rising atmospheric CO₂ reduces seawater pH causing ocean acidification (OA). Understanding how resilient marine organisms respond to OA may help predict how community dynamics will shift as CO₂ continues rising. The common slipper shell snail Crepidula fornicata is a marine gastropod native to eastern North America that has been a successful invader along the western European coastline and elsewhere. It has also been previously shown to be resilient to global change stressors. To examine the mechanisms underlying C. fornicata's resilience to OA, we conducted two controlled laboratory experiments. First, we examined several phenotypes and genome-wide gene expression of C. fornicata in response to pH treatments (7.5, 7.6, and 8.0) throughout the lar

SUBMITTER: Reyes-Giler CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424201 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature