Ocean Acidification Category 1 Collaborative Research: RUI: Synergistic Effects of Temperature and pH Variability on Physiology, Transcriptome and Proteome of Porcelain Crabs

海洋酸化一类合作研究：RUI：温度和pH变化对瓷蟹生理、转录组和蛋白质组的协同效应

• 批准号: 1041227
• 负责人: Lars Tomanek
• 金额: $ 47.69万
• 依托单位: California Polytechnic State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041227&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ocean; Acidification; Category; Collaborative; Research

Marine environments are becoming more acidic as a result of increased atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide; this gas dissolves in sea water and is driving a process known as ocean acidification. However, organisms that live on the ocean floor (e.g. crabs, sea stars and oysters) experience, as a result of their biological activity, daily variations in their pH (acidity) that are greater than those caused by the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This project addresses the comparative effects on porcelain crabs of increased ocean acidity (which changes slowly over years) with the daily variation in pH that these animals experience. The impacts of simultaneous changes in pH and temperature will be assessed, and it will be determined if early life history stages (i.e., crab larvae) are more sensitive to ocean acidification than adults. The responses that will be measured include calcification of the shell, metabolism, altered expression of genes and the modification of proteins. This research is expected to produce new and ecologically important information, across multiple levels of biological organization, about the impacts of ocean acidification on a coastal marine organism.Broader Impacts: This research will provide interdisciplinary training for graduate and undergraduate students in biochemistry, genomics, physiology and ecology. Students who are members of groups underrepresented in science will be recruited through programs at the San Francisco State University Student Enrichment Opportunity office, and through collaboration between Cal Poly and Hancock University. The investigators will incorporate this research in their undergraduate physiology classes, which emphasize active learning. A workshop on proteomics for researchers interested in ecological physiology will be conducted at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The investigators will present public lectures on ocean acidification and climate change, and write articles on these topics in the popular press. Teacher training workshops designed to enhance secondary education in climate change biology will be conducted at the Romberg Tiburon Center and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

由于二氧化碳的大气水平升高，海洋环境变得越来越酸。这种气体溶解在海水中，并正在推动一种称为海洋酸化的过程。 然而，由于其生物学活性的结果，生活在海底（例如螃蟹，海星和牡蛎）体验的生物体，其pH（酸度）的每日变化大于大气中二氧化碳水平升高而引起的pH（酸度）。该项目解决了对海洋酸度增加的瓷器螃蟹的比较影响（在几年中变化缓慢），这些动物经历的pH值变化。 将评估pH和温度的同时变化的影响，并确定早期生活史阶段（即蟹幼虫）是否比成年人对海洋酸化更敏感。 将测量的反应包括壳的钙化，代谢，基因表达改变和蛋白质的修饰。预计这项研究将在多个层次的生物组织中生成有关海洋酸化对沿海海洋生物的影响的新的和生态上重要的信息。Broader的影响：这项研究将为研究生和本科生提供生物化学，基因组学，生理学和生态学的研究生和本科生的跨学科培训。作为科学成员不足的团体成员的学生将通过旧金山州立大学学生丰富机会办公室以及Cal Poly和Hancock University之间的合作来招募。 研究人员将将这项研究纳入其本科生理学课程，强调积极学习。 对生态生理感兴趣的研究人员的蛋白质组学研讨会将在Cal Poly San Luis Obispo举行。 研究人员将介绍有关海洋酸化和气候变化的公开演讲，并在大众媒体上撰写有关这些主题的文章。 旨在加强气候变化生物学中学教育的教师培训讲习班将在Romberg Tiburon中心和Cal Poly San Luis Obispo举办。