Oyster Anatomy
They pull oxygen from the water and trap plankton to eat
What are gills?
I am the oyster's first line of defense against heat stress
What is HSP70?
I am the antioxidant that takes superoxide and turns it into hydrogen peroxide
What is SOD?
I was used in the lab to quantify HSP70 mRNA output
What is qrt-PCR?
I secrete calcium carbonate to build the shell
What is the mantle?
At this temperature, my antioxidant system fails
What is 30°C?
I am the process otherwise known as programmed cell death
What is apoptosis?
A total of this many oysters were martyred for the study
What is 48?
I hold the shell closed, and allow the oyster to seal itself off from predators
What is the adductor muscle?
The Morris et al. 2018 study predicts a rise in SSTs of this degrees centigrade by 2100
What is 4.5 °C?
I am the enzyme responsible for turning hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water
What is CAT?
This assay identified the cellular apoptosis in the study
What is TUNEL?
I release enzymes to break down food and absorb nutrients
What are the digestive glands?
I am the term coined to the sometimes 100% mortality rates in summer oysters
What is summer mortality?
I collide with superoxide to make the messy peroxynitrite
What is NO (RNS)?
I am the last name of not one, but both of the scientists from the study
What is Rahman?
I am the armor that protects the oyster from predators
What is the shell?
Metabolic stress causes denaturing and this _ to the cells proteins
What is unfolding?
I am the "scar" left on a protein after ROS has had its way
What is a carbonyl?
I am the school where the study was conducted
What is UTRGV?