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Data from: Acid secretion by the boring organ of the burrowing giant clam, Tridacna crocea Hill, Richard W.; Armstrong, Eric J.; Inaba, Kazuo; Morita, Masaya; Tresguerres, Martin; Stillman, Jonathon H.; Roa, Jinae N.; Kwan, Garfield T.

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The giant clam Tridacna crocea, native to Indo-Pacific coral reefs, is noted for its unique ability to bore fully into coral rock and is a major agent of reef bioerosion. However, T. crocea’s mechanism of boring has remained a mystery despite decades of research. By exploiting a new, two-dimensional pH-sensing technology and manipulating clams to press their presumptive boring tissue (the pedal mantle) against pH-sensing foils, we show that this tissue lowers the pH of surfaces it contacts by more than 2 pH units below seawater pH day and night. Acid secretion is likely mediated by vacuolar-type H+-ATPase, which we demonstrate (by immunofluorescence) is abundant in the pedal mantle outer epithelium. Our discovery of acid secretion solves this decades-old mystery and reveals that, during bioerosion, T. crocea can liberate reef constituents directly to the soluble phase, rather than producing sediment alone as earlier assumed.
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Title	Data from: Acid secretion by the boring organ of the burrowing giant clam, Tridacna crocea
Creator	Hill, Richard W.; Armstrong, Eric J.; Inaba, Kazuo; Morita, Masaya; Tresguerres, Martin; Stillman, Jonathon H.; Roa, Jinae N.; Kwan, Garfield T.
Date Issued	2021-05-19
Description	Abstract The giant clam Tridacna crocea, native to Indo-Pacific coral reefs, is noted for its unique ability to bore fully into coral rock and is a major agent of reef bioerosion. However, T. crocea’s mechanism of boring has remained a mystery despite decades of research. By exploiting a new, two-dimensional pH-sensing technology and manipulating clams to press their presumptive boring tissue (the pedal mantle) against pH-sensing foils, we show that this tissue lowers the pH of surfaces it contacts by more than 2 pH units below seawater pH day and night. Acid secretion is likely mediated by vacuolar-type H+-ATPase, which we demonstrate (by immunofluorescence) is abundant in the pedal mantle outer epithelium. Our discovery of acid secretion solves this decades-old mystery and reveals that, during bioerosion, T. crocea can liberate reef constituents directly to the soluble phase, rather than producing sediment alone as earlier assumed.; Usage notes ME_ST_XX_00001
Subject	Other; coral reefs; Vacuolar-type H+ATPase; Tridacnid clams; Boring mechanism; bioerosion; Acid secretion; Tridacna crocea
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Notes	Dryad version number: 1 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/GRq_5HhgWPHiARfysb85gZMtdxPKC9qn41ygs7lJrAM</p> Storage size: 29965490 Visibility: public
Date Available	2020-06-24
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0397982
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/WKLMJV
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/WKLMJV; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.88s50
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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