Schmidt, Matthias; Windisch, Heidrun Sigrid; Ludwichowski, Kai-Uwe; Seegert, Sean Lando Levin; Pörtner, Hans-Otto; Storch, Daniela; Bock, Christian (2017): Seawater carbonate chemistry and neurochemical profiles of two gadid species [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.892312, Supplement to: Schmidt, M et al. (2017): Differences in neurochemical profiles of two gadid species under ocean warming and acidification. Frontiers in Zoology, 14(9), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-017-0238-5
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Background: Exposure to future ocean acidification scenarios may alter the behaviour of marine teleosts through interference with neuroreceptor functioning. So far, most studies investigated effects of ocean acidification on the behaviour of fish, either isolated or in combination with environmental temperature. However, only few physiological studies on this issue were conducted despite the putative neurophysiological origin of the CO2-induced behavioural changes. Here, we present the metabolic consequences of long-term exposure to projected ocean acidification (396–548 μatm PCO2 under control and 915–1272 μatm under treatment conditions) and parallel warming in the brain of two related fish species, polar cod (Boreogadus saida, exposed to 0 °C, 3 °C, 6 °C and 8 °C) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua, exposed to 3 °C, 8 °C, 12 °C and 16 °C). It has been shown that B. saida is behaviourally vulnerable to future ocean acidification scenarios, while G. morhua demonstrates behavioural resilience.
Results: We found that temperature alters brain osmolyte, amino acid, choline and neurotransmitter concentrations in both species indicating thermal responses particularly in osmoregulation and membrane structure. In B. saida, changes in amino acid and osmolyte metabolism at the highest temperature tested were also affected by CO2, possibly emphasizing energetic limitations. We did not observe changes in neurotransmitters, energy metabolites, membrane components or osmolytes that might serve as a compensatory mechanism against CO2 induced behavioural impairments. In contrast to B. saida, such temperature limitation was not detected in G. morhua; however, at 8 °C, CO2 induced an increase in the levels of metabolites of the glutamate/GABA-glutamine cycle potentially indicating greater GABAergic activity in G.morhua. Further, increased availability of energy-rich substrates was detected under these conditions.
Conclusions: Our results indicate a change of GABAergic metabolism in the nervous system of Gadus morhua close to the optimum of the temperature range. Since a former study showed that juvenile G. morhua might be slightly more behaviourally resilient to CO2 at this respective temperature, we conclude that the observed change of GABAergic metabolism could be involved in counteracting OA induced behavioural changes. This may serve as a fitness advantage of this respective species compared to B. saida in a future warmer, more acidified polar ocean.
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Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James C; Gentili, Bernard; Proye, Aurélien; Soetaert, Karline; Rae, James (2016): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.1. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb
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Median Latitude: 79.135000 * Median Longitude: 15.540000 * South-bound Latitude: 78.970000 * West-bound Longitude: 12.510000 * North-bound Latitude: 79.300000 * East-bound Longitude: 18.570000
Date/Time Start: 2013-01-17T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2013-08-26T00:00:00
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In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2016) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2018-07-02.
1H-NMR rawdata. The value of each compound was divided by total creatine (creatine+phosphocreatine) for standardization. Ace = Acetate; AcHis = Acetyl histidine; Ala = Alanine; Cho = Choline; GABA = Gamma-aminobutyric acid; Glu = Glutamate; Gln = Glutamine; Gpcho = Glycerophosphocholine; Gly = Glycine; Lac = Lactate; MI = Myo-inositol; NAA = N-acetylaspartate; Pcho = Phosphocholine; Put = Putrescine; Suc = Succinate; Tau = Taurine
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