, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e187034
Population-level transcriptomic datasets from two benthic invertebrates exposed to long-term experimental warming and acidification
expand article infoElisavet Kaitetzidou§, Harris Markomanolaki, Francesco Fabiano|, Carlotta Paone, Eva Chatzinikolaou#, Thanos Dailianis#
‡ Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion, Greece§ School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece| Sicily Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohr, Messina, Italy¶ University of Algavre, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Faro, Portugal# Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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Abstract

Ocean warming and acidification are major drivers of change in marine ecosystems, with particularly strong impacts on low-mobility benthic organisms. Despite their ecological importance, genomic and transcriptomic resources for sponges (Phylum: Porifera) and marine gastropods (Phylum Mollusca) that capture responses to long-term, combined climate stressors and population-level variability remain limited. Herein, we present population-level RNA-seq datasets from the sponge Chondrilla nucula and the gastropod Hexaplex trunculus, collected from northern and southern Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean) populations and exposed for three months to elevated temperature and reduced pH in a common garden experiment simulating near-future climate change conditions. The datasets comprise high-quality paired-end Illumina reads, a complete de novo transcriptome assembly for C. nucula, and genome-guided alignments for H. trunculus. These datasets provide a valuable resource for investigating transcriptional plasticity and climate change resilience in benthic marine invertebrates.

Keywords
Climate change, Porifera, Marine Gastropods, mRNA sequencing, Transcriptome, RNA-seq, environmental stressors, Mediterranean
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