Histological evidence of oosorption in the cold-Water coral Caryophyllia huinayensis from Station X-Huinay, Comau Fjord, Chile

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During winter and spring 2019 and summer and fall 2021, a total of 40 specimens of the cold-water coral Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) huinayensis were collected by scientific SCUBA divers at the studysite—Liliguapi—in Comau Fjord, southern Chile. Specimens were sampled at water depths ranging from 23 to 30 m. Environmental parameters including temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen concentration, and pH were recorded in situ at each site at the time of collection to characterize the ambient habitat conditions. The goal of this dataset is to provide insights into the reproductive processes and stress responses in cold-water corals under natural environmental variability, with particular focus on the phenomenon of oosorption, a form of oocyte resorption potentially associated with energetic trade-offs. All collected coral polyps were histologically processed according to standard protocols (see Heran et al. 2023): samples were fixed, embedded, sectioned, and stained with haematoxylin-eosin. Digital histological slides were generated from the stained sections using a Hamamatsu NanoZoomer S360 whole-slide scanner at 40× magnification (0.23 μm/pixel). The resulting Whole Slide Images (WSIs) were saved in NDPI format and amount to a total of approximately 547 GB of high-resolution image data. The scans were analyzed for signs of oosorption. The corresponding slides exhibiting this process are marked in the associated data table. This dataset provides a unique and high-resolution visual archive of cold-water coral reproductive tissues from a fjord system influenced by freshwater input, variable oxygen concentration, and seasonal environmental gradients. It may serve as a valuable resource for comparative histological studies, reproductive cycles, and stress responses in cold-water ecosystems.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.984641
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.984641
Provenance
Creator Ademes, Bishal Leo (ORCID: 0009-0001-9615-480X); Heran, Thomas ORCID logo; Eissing-Al-Mukahal, Ali; Laudien, Jürgen ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 11723 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-72.457 LON, -42.391 LAT); Comau Fjord, Patagonia, Chile
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-07-25T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-04-11T00:00:00Z