Dataset: nutrients and ARBS sponge disease

Name: Chlorophyll-a, cyanobacteria, fluorescence and total protein in healthy and diseased sponges in the Bahamas and Belize from 2008-2011 (Etiology of ARBS sponge disease project)
Published: 2012-01-25
Keywords: oceans

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Project:

Aplysina Red Band Syndrome: Investigating the etiology, pathogenesis, and ecology of an emerging marine disease (Etiology of ARBS sponge disease)

Principal Investigator:

Julie Olson (University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, UA/Tuscaloosa)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Deborah J. Gochfeld (University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), UM-MMRI)

Robert W. Thacker (University of Alabama at Birmingham, UA/Birmingham)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version Date:

2012-01-25

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Chlorophyll-a, cyanobacteria, fluorescence and total protein in healthy and diseased sponges in the Bahamas and Belize from 2008-2011 (Etiology of ARBS sponge disease project)

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Description

To assess the interacting effects of nutrients and disease on Aplysina cauliformis, we provided nutrient enrichment to healthy and diseased sponges in a factorial experiment at LSI in the summer of 2009. Impacts on ARBS virulence (rate of lesion growth) and host response (growth and physiology of both the sponge and its cyanobacterial symbionts, Synechococcus spongiarum) were assessed.

Methods & Sampling

Sponge samples were collected from patch reefs near the Perry Institute for Marine Science, Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas.

Data Processing Description

Units for measurements of the analyses:
chla: micrograms of chlorophyll-a per milligram of sponge wet weight;
cyanobacteria: cells per 2886 micometers viewing area;
fluorescent yield: no units;
total protein: micrograms protein per mg sponge tissue (lyophilized prior to extraction)

Data Files

File
nuts_ARBS.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 7.60 KB) MD5:5d48059ca28a0fe9e136f20b8da070c5 Primary data file for dataset ID 3609

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0727833
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0727996
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-0726944

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
lab_Olson_ARBS		2008-07-21	Unknown Platform	Julie Olson (Principal Investigator) Deborah J. Gochfeld (Co-Principal Investigator) Robert W. Thacker (Co-Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

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

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
analysis_type	chlophyll-a;cyanobacteria; fluorescence; total protein measured	text	no_bcodmo_term
condition	initial condition of sponge specimen; healthy or diseased	text	no_bcodmo_term
nutrients_treatment	experimental treatment; enriched or none	text	no_bcodmo_term
sponge_id	identification number of the sponge specimen used in the experiment	1 to 12	no_bcodmo_term
rack_id	rack number: sponges were placed on racks for experimental exposure with 2 sponges per rack	1 to 24	no_bcodmo_term
initial	initial measurement of the analysis. chla: micrograms of chlorophyll-a per milligram of sponge wet weight;cyanobacteria: cells per 2886 micometers viewing area;fluorescent yield: no units;total protein: micrograms protein per mg sponge tissue (lyophilized prior to extraction)	number	no_bcodmo_term
final	final measurement of the analysis; same units as initial measurements	number	no_bcodmo_term

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Dataset: nutrients and ARBS sponge disease