Sponge Larvae Gene Expression and Microbial Data Under Oil Exposure

Phyllospongia foliascens sponge larvae from the Indo-Pacific were exposed to six dilutions of weathered condensate oil for 24 hours. The collection includes larval settlement data, differential gene expression from Tag-based RNA-Seq, and microbial amplicon sequence variant data from 16S rRNA sequencing. Data is associated with a 2024 research publication and raw sequencing files are available in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive under BioProject PRJNA1012550.

Use Cases

• Analyze differential gene expression patterns in sponge larvae based on exposure to water accommodated fractions of condensate oil.
• Study shifts in microbial communities associated with sponge larvae based on 16S rRNA amplicon sequence variant data.
• Model larval settlement success as a toxicity endpoint based on exposure to six different treatment dilutions.
• Integrate gene expression and microbial data to investigate host-microbe interactions under oil stress.

Strengths

• Data is linked to a specific 2024 peer-reviewed research publication and its supplementary materials.
• Raw sequencing data is available in a public repository (NCBI SRA) under BioProject PRJNA1012550.
• The experimental design includes six treatment dilutions ranging from 0 to 100%.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the study of a single Indo-Pacific sponge species.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, associated with research by Luter et al. (2024).

Collection Method

Experimental exposure of sponge larvae to oil fractions, followed by RNA-Seq and 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 02:24:22.512417; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Indo-Pacific region (study organism Phyllospongia foliascens is common there).