10.15146/R3509H
Bedgood, Samuel
0000-0002-2510-0900
University of California, Irvine
Environmental drivers of adult locomotion and reproduction in a
symbiont-hosting sea anemone
Dryad
dataset
2019
2019-11-17T08:00:00Z
2019-11-17T08:00:00Z
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This data was collected from the sea anemone species Exaiptasia diaphana
collected in the Florida Keys in January 2016. Anemones were brought into
the lab where they were exposed to feeding treatments (fed or starved) and
algal symbiont manipulations (high or low symbiont denisties).
We collected data on movement via time lapse photography, reproduction via
counting of pedal lacerates, and anemone size via photography and analysis
in the program ImageJ. We found that feeding treatments had an effect on
movement, but symbiont density did not. However, there was an interaction
between feeding and symbiont density that did have an effect on
reproduction and anemone size. We suggest that food availbility affects
adult movement in sea anemones and that movemnt may impact the ability of
this nominally sessile organism to escape deleterious conditions.
See methods within the data set file