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A Status Review of Thecosome Pteropod Culture Techniques JPR Advance Access published February 10, 2014 Journal of Plankton Research plankt.oxfordjournals.org J. Plankton Res. (2014) 0(0): 1–17. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbu002 REVIEWARTICLE Downloaded from Sink and swim: a status review of http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/ thecosome pteropod culture techniques ELLA L. HOWES1,2*, NINA BEDNARSˇEK3, JAN BU¨ DENBENDER4, STEEVE COMEAU5, AYLA DOUBLEDAY6, SCOTT M. GALLAGER7, RUSSELL R. HOPCROFT6, SILKE LISCHKA4, AMY E. MAAS7, JELLE BIJMA2 AND JEAN-PIERRE GATTUSO1,8 1 2 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on August 2, 2016 UNIVERSITE´ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE, LABORATOIRE D’OCE´ ANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE, F-06230 VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-MER CEDEX, FRANCE, ALFRED 3 WEGENER INSTITUTE HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH, BREMERHAVEN, GERMANY, NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY, 4 7600 SAND POINT WAY NE, SEATTLE, WA 98115, USA, GEOMAR, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL, DE´ STERNRBOOKER WEG 20, 24105 KIEL, 5 6 GERMANY, DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE, CA, USA, INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA 7 8 FAIRBANKS, FAIRBANKS, AK 99775, USA, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, WOODS HOLE, MA 02543, USA AND CNRS-INSU, UMR 7093, LABORATOIRE D’OCE´ ANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE, F-06230 VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-MER, FRANCE *CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: [email protected] Received October 16, 2013; accepted December 31, 2013 Corresponding editor: Roger Harris The widespread distribution of pteropods, their role in ocean food webs and their sensitivity to ocean acidification and warming has renewed scientific interest in this group of zooplankton. Unfortunately, their fragile shell, sensitivity to handling, unknowns surrounding buoyancy regulation and poorly described feeding mechan- isms make thecosome pteropods notoriously difficult to maintain in the laboratory. The resultant high mortality rates and unnatural behaviours may confound experi- mental findings. The high mortality rate also discourages the use of periods of accli- mation to experimental conditions and precludes vital long-term studies. Here we summarize the current status of culture methodology to provide a comprehensive basis for future experimental work and culture system development. KEYWORDS: pteropod; culture methods; ocean acidification; perturbation experiment available online at www.plankt.oxfordjournals.org # The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected] JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH j VOLUME 0 j NUMBER 0 j PAGES 1–17 j 2014 INTRODUCTION highly species specific (Gilmer and Harbison, 1986). Whilst the web is deployed the animal hangs motionless Pteropods are a cosmopolitan group of holoplanktonic with the web between the parapodia; eventually the molluscs, which consists of thecosome (shelled) and gym- animal consumes the entire mucous structure with its nosome (shell-less) species, both of which play an import- attached particles. In culture, there is insufficient time to ant role in trophic and biogeochemical fluxes (Lalli and extend the wings and deploy the feeding web. Food de- Gilmer, 1989). For decades, pteropods have been under- privation has been shown to function as a synergistic studied, but recently thecosome species have become the stressor with CO2 (Seibel et al., 2012), and thus also acts focus of renewed scientific interest within the rapidly as a confounding variable in long-term studies of captive expanding field of ocean acidification research, and as animals. such are the primary focus of this review. Since the indus- In the course of experimental work with pteropods, trial revolution the oceans have absorbed approximately various methods have been used to culture animals in the et al one-third of anthropogenic CO2 (Sabine ., 2004), laboratory, with varying degrees of success. At the time of altering seawater carbonate chemistry. Ocean pH has writing, only one laboratory has successfully reared a Downloaded from dropped by 0.1 pH units since the industrial revolution single species of pteropod, Limacina retroversa, through a and is projected to decrease by up to 0.3–0.4 units by full life cycle. Here we report, for the first time, the 2100 (Orr, 2011). methods used. A common problem in developing culture Pteropods are predicted to be particularly vulnerable systems is the patchy and seasonal abundance of ptero- to the effects of lowered carbonate saturation states result- pods, which limits opportunities for method testing and http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/ ing from ocean acidification as their thin shells are made development. As negative results are often not published, of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate more soluble these rare chances are often wasted by unknowingly repeat- than calcite in sea water (Mucci, 1983). Studies have con- ing the unsuccessful tests of others, for this reason we also firmed that pteropod larvae and adults exhibit negative provide a summary of the varied and often-unpublished calcification responses to projected future conditions with techniques tested in pteropod culture work. The aim et al decreased calcification (Comeau ., 2010a,b; Lischka of the present assessment is to summarize the different et al et al ., 2011) and shell dissolution (Lischka ., 2011). approaches used and discuss their efficacy as a starting Studies of metabolic rate have also revealed that CO2 point for the much-needed further development of ptero- at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on August 2, 2016 acts in concert with other environmental stressors, such pod culturing systems. as temperature and salinity, influencing swimming speed and oxygen consumption in some pteropod species (Comeau et al., 2010b; Maas et al., 2011, 2012a, 2012; Bednarsˇek et al., 2012a). These studies have been primar- METHOD ily of short-term duration due to constraints imposed by the difficulties of keeping pteropods in culture. Collection In their natural environment, pteropods have periods Pteropods are often classified as gelatinous animals in of active swimming, sinking and neutral buoyancy (Lalli zooplankton collections and are often in a poor state and Gilmer, 1989). The weight of the shell causes the when retrieved using classical net tows (Hamner et al., animals to sink relatively quickly, and culture vessels do 1975; Robison, 2004). The shells of thecosome pteropods not provide a sufficiently deep water column and/or ad- are fragile and many of the more highly evolved groups, equate current conditions for the animals to attain neutral including the subfamily Cavolinidae and the pseudotheco- buoyancy. This often results in the animals repeatedly somes, have extremely delicate gelatinous pseudoconches hitting the bottom of the culture vessel, causing shell and extensive external mantle structures. Damage by breakage and the production of stress-induced mucus. nets becomes particularly problematic when animals are The mucus can stick their wings together, impairing swim- collected for experimental or culturing purposes. Thus, ming ability and can adhere them to the bottom of the collection of pteropods using specialized capture tank. methods can greatly increase the proportion of undam- Lack of buoyancy, in turn, impedes feeding behaviour. aged animals. Although primarily open ocean animals, Thecosome pteropods are suspension feeders, producing in some regions the topography and hydrography allow mucous webs from their wings (Fig. 1), several times their the collection of pteropods from the shore or using small body size, to entrap phytoplankton and small motile prey boats. In these locations, researchers have used “jelly and other particles (Gilmer, 1972). Production and re- dippers” (beakers strapped to long handles) to allow the traction of the web can be relatively fast as little as 5 s for collection of these delicate animals (Seibel et al., 2007; deployment and ,20 s for retraction, although this is Maas et al., 2011). 2 E. L. HOWES ET AL. j PTEROPOD CULTURE METHODS Fig. 1. Mucous web productions observed in pteropods maintained in temperature-gradient kreisel (Gorsky et al., 1986). (A) The mucous web Downloaded from being retracted and (B) the mucous web at its maximum extension in Mediterranean C. inflexa.(C) The mucus production of the Mediterranean pteropod C. virgula. Photos: S. Comeau. Hand collection can also be performed by sampling After collection, pteropods should be inspected to pteropods using SCUBA diving techniques (Gilmer, ensure that the shell and soft tissue have not been http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/ 1974; Fabry, 1990; Maas et al., 2012a) to collect larger damaged during collection. Damaged organisms must be organisms with minimal stress. Successful collection discarded in order to avoid subsequent bacterial infection using diving is limited by animal density and is much and the contamination/death of the whole population. more time and effort intensive than net sampling Following inspection, it is recommended to immediately (Haddock and Heine, 2005). It has, however, proven par- transfer the organisms into a large volume of filtered sea ticularly useful in tropical regions (where cavolinids and water at in situ temperature from the site of collection. pseudothecosomes are more abundant) and at night (when diel migratory individuals congregate in surface waters). Finally, a few species are exclusively meso- or Water treatment at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on August 2, 2016 bathy-pelagic, and gentle collection of these animals is Pteropods produce mucous coverings, mucous webs and particularly
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