I had my Fall 2016 committee meeting on Thursday, Dec. 8. Pretty productive, with some good discussion about what to do going forward with my samples from this summer’s field season. Slides can be found here.
Fall 2016 Committee Meeting
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Goals December 2016
- Prepare for committee meeting on Dec. 8
- Run EEMS, PCA, Structure, Bayescan, Migrate-N on cleaned, “final” denovo GBS assembly
- Take stock of how many sites I have pH/temperature/salinity data for.
- Create slides to discuss work from Summer 2016, planned transcriptomics
- Graph survival in individual experiments
- Create slides to discuss status of work from Summer 2015
- Adult Olympia oyster experiment
- Update spreadsheet with notes from final sampling day at Manchester
- Have Roberts lab ship samples
- Alpheus paper
- Write discussion section
- Make poster for SICB
- 2bRAD Olympia oyster project
- finish libraries of redos to send off for sequencing (by Dec. 20!)
Exploring GBS data and some file conversions
I’ve been working on organizing my scripts to analyze GBS data for my dissertation chapter on the phylogeography of the Olympia oyster. Still a lot of work to do, but here’s a couple of notebooks. All notebooks can be found at my Github under 2016_Notebooks and the scripts referenced in them can be found in my Github’s Scripts repository.
GBS_File_Conversions.ipynb: I’m planning on using this notebook to describe various file conversion scripts and code snippets I’ve written to work with. May end up splitting them into separate notebooks, but we’ll see. Currently, it describes how to add population information to the Structure (.str) output from ipyrad/pyrad, whether that be integers (required by the actual Structure program), or strings (useful for programs like Adegenet in R). It also describes how to take a .geno or .str file and split it up into many .geno files for looking at pairwise Fst and nucleotide diversity in R.
Exploring_GBS_Data_With_R.ipynb: This notebook has snippets of code used to explore pairwise Fst and nucleotide diversity (pi). Will eventually expand to include other R-based analysis methods.
Day 0 Sampling- Olympia Oyster OA Project
For my last morning in Washington state, Sam White and myself dissected 48 Olympia oysters for 3 different tissue types as part of an adult Olympia oyster/rock scallop ocean acidification experiment. Sam already wrote up a great summary of the day in his lab notebook. A list of all adult oysters sampled this summer, including those used in the adult OA experiment, can be found here or at the appropriate link under “Datasheets” in this lab notebook. This datasheet includes the date dissected, treatment tub, weight in grams, reproductive status at time of sampling, date of mortality (if oyster died prior to being dissected), and which tissues were samples. To measure size of oyster, I have labelled pictures of every oyster with a ruler in a Dropbox folder. I also wrote up a dissection protocol for subsequent sampling days.
Setting up for adult Olympia oyster OA experiment (20160907-11)
Wednesday 2016-09-07
In the morning, Natalie and I went to the Taylor Shellfish hatchery to pick up valves for the broodstock OA system. We got to Manchester around 12:30pm and worked on finishing up the plumbing and gluing the PVC. The hoses that were intended to be used to deliver water to the tubs didn’t fit easily on the valves, so we stuck one end in a toaster oven for a minute to make it easier to push on. We hooked up the manifolds to the OA system and let water run through overnight. Then we realized we hadn’t added in coupling for the algae injection port (D’oh!), so that needed to be addressed on Thursday. We didn’t have time to give algae to the oysters or scallops, so both animals ended up without food overnight.
Oyster Mortalities
- CA1T (1), BC1T (1), BC2T_058
Need to do: get brand name of valves
Thursday 2016-09-08
- Used the rest of the white shellfish tags to label oysters that will be used in the adult OA experiment
- Weighed oysters before adding tag and recorded their tray group during the larval experiment
- Placed them in a single layer on the bottom of flow-through buckets with seawater and live algae overnight for putty to cure
- Checked for mortalities
- 2 from OR1T (sampled 1)
- 1 from OR2T (sampled)
- Figured out the flow and food concentration with Ryan for the scallop tanks
- Goal is to have at least 100,000 cells per mL of algae
- Found that when valves are set to 50 the flow into each tub was ~0.85 L/min
- Added couplings for the algae injection port on the flex hoses leading up to the manifolds
- Starting around 5pm, took the scallops out of their fish totes and divided them up evenly amongst the 8 treatment tubs, with 11 or 12 scallops per tub. There were 4 fish totes corresponding to the 4 source populations.
- Scuzz and some soft tissue epiphytes were gently wiped off with gloved hands. Scallops placed so they would not be touching each other
- Temp of tubs: 15.12degC – 15.37degC, Salinity: 28.6
- Tote A2 scallops spawned
- Looked like eggs from 380, 311, 48, 381
- Tote B2 spawned
- just eggs from 312
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Friday 2016-09-09
- Checked for mortalities
- BC 049
- Divided up oysters and placed them into clam bags to hang in treatment tubs with scallops.
- 12 British Columbia oysters per treatment tub
- 10 California and 10 Oregon oysters per treatment tub
- Dissected adductor muscle from extra BC oysters not used in OA experiment
- Recorded weight, reproductive status, tray group, and took pics for size
- BC1T A, B, 93, C, D, 101
- BC2T A, 111, 110, B, C, D, E, 108
- Checked algae in one A tub and 1 B tub using Coulter counter
- 92,921 cells/ml, 99,070 cells/ml
Sunday 2016-09-11
- Recorded which oysters were in which experiment tub and made sure numbers were balanced, in case an oyster gets misplaced when cleaning
- Checked for mortalities
- 024W (CA)
- 058W
- Weighed and took pictures for size of any oysters I did not already have data for
- Dissected adductor muscle into RNALater from 12 oysters that were in tray OR1T during larval experiment
- Labelled OR1T A-L
- Processed the rest of the tiles from the acidification larval experiment
- These are 4.5in diameter PVC tiles that were roughed up on both sides with sandpaper and placed with oyster larvae 14 days post-release
- Only added if at least 20% survival in treatment
- To process them I counted the number of live and dead oysters per tile, took a pic of both sides with a ruler, and scraped off juveniles into RNALater if there were at least 5 living oysters on the tile
- These are 4.5in diameter PVC tiles that were roughed up on both sides with sandpaper and placed with oyster larvae 14 days post-release
2016-09-01
Thursday 2016-09-01
- Checked for mortalities
- CA1T (2), CA4B (2), CA2T (1), 011 from OR1T
- I bought 150 white shellfish tags (1/8″ x 1/4″) labelled 000-149 in order to label some of the oysters to be used in the OA experiment. This is to help determine which population an oyster belongs to in case it gets mixed up during sampling.
- Sean used seawater epoxy to attach tags to some of the oysters that will be used in the adult OA experiment. Before attaching tags, he recorded weight for the oyster in grams. He tried to randomize the oysters chosen for the experiment by size.
- Since some oysters already had orange shellfish tags (labelled 001-074) from the summer larval experiment, all subsequent labels will have a “W” to denote the ID of an oyster with a white tag. To cure the epoxy, these oysters were left in a single layer on the bottom of a bucket with an airstone and flow-through of algae and seawater.
- I took pictures and counted the number of live oysters on some of the tiles from the larval experiment, as well as emptied out some silos that still had larvae in them. If any larvae had set on the side of the silos, I counted them and scraped them off into a 1.5 mL tube with RNALater. Tiles with oysters on them were left hanging in a bucket fed by the oyster broodstock manifold.
- Tiles w/oysters: B61, B89, B67, A48
- Tiles w/out oysters: A82, A71
- Silos: A26, A48, A27
- I dissected adductor muscle from some California and Oregon oysters that were not going to be used in the adult OA experiment.
- CA4B_A, CA4B_B, CA4B_C (tiny oyster attached to CA4B_B),CA4B_D, CA4B_E, CA4B_F, CA4B_G, CA4B_H, CA4B_I, CA4B_J, CA4B_K
- OR2T_E, OR2T_F, OR2T_G, OR2T_H, OR2T_I, OR2T_J, OR2T_K, OR2T_L, OR2T_M, OR2T_N, OR2T_O, OR2T_P, OR2T_Q, OR2T_R
- OR5B_A, OR5B_B
- OR2B_A, OR2B_B (attached to C), OR2B_C (attached to B), OR2B_D, OR2B_E, OR2B_F
Wed. 2016-08-31
Wednesday 2016-08-31
- Screened out silos from the new new experiment started ??. Day 7
| ID | Family | Sample | Action |
| B24 | EtOH | Dumped | |
| A16 | EtOH | Dumped | |
| B37 | 250 in RNALater, 100 in EtOH | Larvae returned to clean silo |
- Counted and took pics of tiles that had already been removed from silos. For tiles that had at least 20 oysters I sampled ~10 oysters and stored in RNALater.
| ID | Family | Sample | Action |
| A46 | No | Had oysters, replaced | |
| A10 | 11 | Had oysters, replaced | |
| A90 | 10 | Had oysters, replaced | |
| A85 | 13 | Had oysters, replaced | |
| B58 | 16 | Had oysters, replaced | |
| B64 | all oysters | Not returned, no pic | |
| B54 | 10 | Had oysters, replaced | |
| A84 | 0 | No oysters, not returned |
Monday 2016-08-29
Monday 2016-08-29
- Screened out silos from new new experiment started ?? for Day 7
| ID | Family | Sample | Action |
| B32 | EtOH | Dumped | |
| A17 | EtOH | Dumped | |
| B70 | EtOH | Dumped | |
| A15 | 500 in RNALater, 100 in EtOH | Larvae returned to clean silo |
- Counted newly released larvae
- over 10,000: CA2_T, OR5_B, CA4_B (mostly dead)
- Screen out silos with tiles in them. Counted planktonic larvae in silo, spat on sides of silo, and spat on tiles. Rinsed off tiles gently with freshwater.
| ID | Family | Sample | Action |
| A27 | No | Replaced tile and larvae in clean silo | |
| A45 | No | Replaced tile and larvae in clean silo | |
| A48 | No | Replaced tile and larvae in clean silo | |
| A46 | EtOH | Tile returned to tank, larvae dumped | |
| A83 | EtOH | Culled some from tile, tile returned to tank, larvae dumped | |
| A82 | EtOH | Tile returned to tank, larvae dumped | |
| A23 | EtOH | Tile empty, not returned to tank | |
| A49 | EtOH | No count for tile, not returned to tank |
Sunday 2016-08-28
Sunday 2016-08-28
- Screened out some silos that had tiles in them. Counted larvae and returned them to silo with tile if at least 20% were still alive.
| ID | Family | Sample | Action |
| B80 | EtOH | No living oysters, not replaced | |
| A26 | No | Tile and larvae replaced in clean silo | |
| B67 | No | Tile and larvae replaced in clean silo | |
| B100 | No | Tile empty, both tile and larvae replaced in silo |
- Screened out silos with larvae from new new experiment started ?? for Day 6. Replaced larvae in clean silo if at least 20% were alive and they looked healthy. If larvae were to be replaced, I took a sample for 500 larvae in RNALater and 100 larvae in EtOH.
| ID | Family | Sample | Action |
| B49 | EtOH | Dumped | |
| B31 | RNALater, EtOH | Replaced in clean silo | |
| A11 | EtOH | Live larvae not swimming, dumped | |
| A09 | EtOH | Live larvae not swimming, dumped | |
| A14 | RNALater, EtOH | Replaced in clean silo |
- Took water sample
Start of full-scale larval OA experiment!
Wednesday, 2016-07-27
Today started like many of the previous days, with checking for extruded eggs and counting the larvae in some of the silos from the preliminary experiments. I had a late start at the hatchery because I was picking up a pipette gun from campus.
Extruded Eggs:
- BC3T
- 2 new: 112(2), 113(2)
- 1 repeat: 34 (1)
Screened out silos at Day 5 from experiment started 2016-07-22 with OR2T and CA2T larvae. Took pictures under microscope at 10x of all but A84 and A83.
| ID | Family | Sample | Action |
| A86 | OR2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
| A85 | OR2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
| B61 | CA2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
| B59 | CA2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
| B65 | OR2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
| B63 | OR2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
| A84 | CA2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
| A83 | CA2T | 750 in RNALater | Put in clean silo |
Then Sean and I started screening out the newly released larvae from the trays and buckets. There did not seem to be enough larvae from all three populations, so I stayed to finish screening out the last couple of buckets and count larvae. While the BC3T oysters were sitting in a bucket waiting to be placed into a clean tray, they started to release A LOT of larvae. Once I finished screening the last of the buckets I realized that we finally had enough from all three populations to start the experiment. Hooray! However, it meant I ended up staying until 10pm setting up by myself.
I had to remove some of the silos from preliminary experiments that were in the system in order to make room for the full experiment. I screened these out and left in tripours overnight to count the next morning.
- B72, A63, A6, B66, B60, B55, A88, B66, B80, A100, A97, B51, A9
There were two family groups for CA and OR that had a lot of larvae, whereas BC had one group with a lot of larvae and one group with ~20,000. I decided to combine the BC groups, then have 2 replicates per treatment for each family group, so 4 silos per population/ treatment for CA and OR and 2 silos per population/treatment for BC. Not ideal, but I wasn’t sure when I would have at all three populations spawning at the same time again. I counted the larvae for each population with 4 subsamples of 0.5 mL, took the average to get larvae/mL and then calculated how many mL to add to each silo to get 15,000 larvae. I dispensed larvae with a pipette gun and 25mL pipettes while plunging constantly to mix, using a new pipette for each family group. When pipetting out replicates, I alternated between treatments to help mitigate possible effects of the plunging/pipetting process (probably a little overkill).
| Family | larvae/mL | mL added | Experiment labels |
| OR1T | 152.8 | 98.2 | B20, B18, A72, A73 |
| OR5B | 153 | 98 | A59, A71, B13, B11 |
| CA4B | 168 | 89.3 | B19, A58, A57, B06 |
| CA2T | 290 | 51.7 | A55, A56, B16, B12 |
| BC3T+BC2T | 232.5 | 64.5 | A53, A54, B35, B45 |
I had hoped there would be enough larvae from BC1T, but there was only ~10,000.
Getting My Genes Wet 