ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2013
The stunting effect of a high CO2 ocean on calcification and development in sea urchin larvae, a synthesis from the tropics to the poles.
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- Effects of Long-Term Ocean Acidification Exposure on the Structural, Mineralogical, and Mechanical Properties of Sea Urchin (Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
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- Vanadium Toxicity Is Altered by Global Warming Conditions in Sea Urchin Embryos: Metal Bioaccumulation, Cell Stress Response and Apoptosis.Journal of xenobiotics · 2024Article
- Toxicity of Vanadium during Development of Sea Urchin Embryos: Bioaccumulation, Calcium Depletion, ERK Modulation and Cell-Selective Apoptosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Gene expression patterns of red sea urchins (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) exposed to different combinations of temperature and pCOBMC genomics · 2021Article
- Ocean acidification induces distinct transcriptomic responses across life history stages of the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma.Molecular ecology · 2020Article
- Ocean acidification affects microbial community and invertebrate settlement on biofilms.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Ocean acidification promotes broad transcriptomic responses in marine metazoans: a literature survey.Frontiers in zoology · 2020Review
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- Molecular mechanisms underpinning transgenerational plasticity in the green sea urchin Psammechinus miliaris.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The impact of environmental acidification on the microstructure and mechanical integrity of marine invertebrate skeletons.Conservation physiology · 2019Review
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- Ocean acidification impacts spine integrity but not regenerative capacity of spines and tube feet in adult sea urchins.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Gene expression profiling during the embryo-to-larva transition in the giant red sea urchinEcology and evolution · 2017Article
- Spatio-temporal environmental variation mediates geographical differences in phenotypic responses to ocean acidification.Biology letters · 2017Article
- In situ developmental responses of tropical sea urchin larvae to ocean acidification conditions at naturally elevated pCO2 vent sites.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Functional insights into the testis transcriptome of the edible sea urchin Loxechinus albus.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Loss of genetic diversity as a consequence of selection in response to highEvolutionary applications · 2016Article
- Future ocean hypercapnia driven by anthropogenic amplification of the natural CO2 cycle.Nature · 2016Article
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Abstract
The stunting effect of ocean acidification on development of calcifying invertebrate larvae has emerged as a significant effect of global change. We assessed the arm growth response of sea urchin echinoplutei, here used as a proxy of larval calcification, to increased seawater acidity/pCO2 and decreased carbonate mineral saturation in a global synthesis of data from 15 species. Phylogenetic relatedness did not influence the observed patterns. Regardless of habitat or latitude, ocean acidification impedes larval growth with a negative relationship between arm length and increased acidity/pCO2 and decreased carbonate mineral saturation. In multiple linear regression models incorporating these highly correlated parameters, pCO2 exerted the greatest influence on decreased arm growth in the global dataset and also in the data subsets for polar and subtidal species. Thus, reduced growth appears largely driven by organism hypercapnia. For tropical species, decreased carbonate mineral saturation was most important. No single parameter played a dominant role in arm size reduction in the temperate species. For intertidal species, the models were equivocal. Levels of acidification causing a significant (approx. 10-20+%) reduction in arm growth varied between species. In 13 species, reduction in length of arms and supporting skeletal rods was evident in larvae reared in near-future (pCO2 800+ µatm) conditions, whereas greater acidification (pCO2 1000+ µatm) reduced growth in all species. Although multi-stressor studies are few, when temperature is added to the stressor mix, near-future warming can reduce the negative effect of acidification on larval growth. Broadly speaking, responses of larvae from across world regions showed similar trends despite disparate phylogeny, environments and ecology. Larval success may be the bottleneck for species success with flow-on effects for sea urchin populations and marine ecosystems.
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