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Immobilisation of living coral embryos and larvae

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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These data were collected intermittently from November 2017 to December 2019 during an exploratory investigation of the immobilisation of coral embryos and larvae. Coral gametes were collected during the 2017 and 2018 mass coral spawning events at the National SeaSimulator at AIMS (SeaSim), and were fertilised and cultured in mass larval rearing tanks. The ability of embryos and larvae to withstand being immobilised in agarose gel was tested for several species, at different developmental stages, and their ability to settle and metamorphose post immobilisation was tested. This investigation was done as a first step to determine the suitability of future microencapsulation techniques for coral larvae. Data were collected in controlled laboratory experiments in sterile petri dishes and 6-well plates in SeaSim temperature-controlled experimental rooms 2 and 9. Embryos and larvae were handled with sterile plastic pipettes and standard laboratory thermometer probes were used to track agarose gelling temperatures. Leica dissection microscopes were used to make observations of the experimental embryos and larvae, and to take photomicrographs. Survival and settlement rates of immobilised larvae were compared with control larvae using Welch’s two sample t-tests in R. Survival rates were modelled against hours post fertilisation using a logistic regression with a binomial distribution and a logit link function in R.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Immobilisation of living coral embryos and larvae
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a112c27a-46a5-486a-be4e-d8dbd273ad1d
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
reception@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 22/01/2020
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Immobilisation of living coral embryos and larvae". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/immobilisation-of-living-coral-embryos-and-larvae