Dataset: Effects of early-life diet on Nucella canaliculata drilling phenotype

Name: Effects of early-life diet on Nucella canaliculata drilling phenotype quantified in the laboratory after rearing on different prey treatments
Published: 2024-01-24
Keywords: Eco-evolutionary Dynamics, Nucella canaliculata, selection, oceans

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DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.918460.1

Spatial Extent: N:38.3235 E:-121.929 S:36.4476 W:-123.078

Bodega Marine Reserve and Soberanes Point, California; and Bob Creek, Oregon

Temporal Extent: 2021-06-07 - 2022-02-17

Project:

Coastal mosaics of local adaptation and the eco-evolutionary dynamics of a marine predator-prey interaction (Coastal Adaptation)

Principal Investigator:

Eric Sanford (University of California-Davis, UC Davis-BML)

Student:

Emily K. Longman (University of California-Davis, UC Davis-BML)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2024-01-24

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Effects of early-life diet on Nucella canaliculata drilling phenotype quantified in the laboratory after rearing on different prey treatments

Abstract:

The growing field of eco-evolutionary dynamics has highlighted the importance of reciprocal feedbacks between evolutionary and ecological processes. We tested whether selection could act on existing within-population variation in a predatory trait in the marine dogwhelk, Nucella canaliculata. We reared newly hatched dogwhelks on four prey treatments (thin-shelled Mytilus trossulus, two treatments of M. californianus from two populations known to differ in adult shell thickness, and acorn barnacles). To quantify dogwhelk phenotype, we tested the surviving adult dogwhelks on their ability to drill mid-sized (5-7cm long) M. californianus. We found evidence that dogwhelk phenotype varied among the early-life diet treatments.

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier (PID)	Date PID Issued
2024-01-24	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.918460.1	2024-01-26

Methods & Sampling

Adult dogwhelks were scored for their ability to drill mid-sized (5 to 7 centimeters long) Mytilus californianus mussels during a 100-day laboratory experiment. 12 adult dogwhelks from 18 Bodega Marine Reserve families (dogwhelks that hatched from the same egg capsule cluster were considered a 'family' of snails) and from 4 Soberanes Point families were scored. Dogwhelks were held in individual containers with flowing seawater. Checks were performed routinely every 3 weeks to assess dogwhelk drilling. If a mussel was drilled, it was recorded and replaced with another mussel. Two metrics for dogwhelk drilling were quantified – a binary trait if a dogwhelk was able to drill at least one mussel during the course of the experiment, and the total number of mussels drilled per snail. The experiment was performed in two rounds due to space limitations.

BCO-DMO Processing

- Imported original file "Effects of early-life diet on Nucella canaliculata drilling phenotype.xlsx" into the BCO-DMO system.
- Flagged "NA" as a missing data value (missing data are empty/blank in the final CSV file).
- Added columns for site Latitude and Longitude.
- Renamed fields/columns to comply with BCO-DMO naming conventions.
- Saved the final file as "918460_v1_Nucella_canaliculata_drilling_phenotype.csv".

Data Files

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918460_v1_nucella_canaliculata_drilling_phenotype.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 77.79 KB) MD5:dda0e210c01540f54c1b3401ebe826b2 Primary data file for dataset ID 918460, version 1

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1851462

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

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Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Container	Container number.	unitless	sample
Round	Either 1 or 2. The laboratory experiment occurred in two rounds due to space limitations.	unitless	exp_id
Population	Population that the dogwhelk egg capsule cluster was collected from: Bodega Marine Reserve (BMR) or Soberanes Point (SBR).	unitless	site
Site_Latitude	Latitude of the dogwhelk collection site.	decimal degrees	lat
Site_Longitude	Longitude of the dogwhelk collection site (negative values = West).	decimal degrees	lon
Family	Code/number to identify the family. Families (dogwhelks from the same egg capsules cluster were considered to be full or half siblings and classified as a family) from each population were numbered.	unitless	sample
Treatment	Early-life diet treatment. Four treatments were used in this study: (1) a control diet of thin-shelled M. trossulus, (2) M. californianus from Soberanes Point, (3) M. californianus from Bodega Marine Reserve, and (4) acorn barnacles (Chthamalus dalli).	unitless	treatment
Family_x_Treatment	Each family by diet treatment was given a unique identifier.	unitless	sample
Snail	Each snail was given a unique identifier based on its family, early-life diet treatment and recplicate.	unitless	sample
Drilled_Binary	Either 1 or 0. Measure of dogwhelk phenotype - if a dogwhelk drilled a complete drill hole through the shell of one Mytilus californianus mussel over the course of the 100-day experiment.	unitless	sample_descrip
Total_Drilled	Measure of dogwhelk phenotype - the total number of Mytilus californianus mussels drilled per dogwhelk.	unitless	count
Check_1	The number of mussels drilled by each dogwhelk recorded on the first experimental check (week 3). Drilled mussels were removed and replaced with a new 5-7cm Mytilus californianus mussel.	unitless	count
Check_2	The number of mussels drilled by each dogwhelk recorded on the second experimental check (week 6). Drilled mussels were removed and replaced with a new 5-7cm Mytilus californianus mussel.	unitless	count
Check_3	The number of mussels drilled by each dogwhelk recorded on the third experimental check (week 9). Drilled mussels were removed and replaced with a new 5-7cm Mytilus californianus mussel.	unitless	count
Check_4	The number of mussels drilled by each dogwhelk recorded on the fourth experimental check (week 12). Drilled mussels were removed and replaced with a new 5-7cm Mytilus californianus mussel.	unitless	count
Check_5	The number of mussels drilled by each dogwhelk recorded on the fifth experimental check (week 15). Drilled mussels were removed and replaced with a new 5-7cm Mytilus californianus mussel.	unitless	count
Dead	Data on if a dogwhelk died during the course of the laboratory scoring experiment.	unitless	mortality