Effects of passive integrated transponder (PIT) implantation on Pacific lamprey ammocoetes

Moser, Mary L.; Jackson, Aaron; Mueller, Robert P.; Maine, Alexa; Davisson, Mary

doi:10.1186/s40317-016-0118-3

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“…Although this process appears to allow smaller individuals to be tagged, the process may be too complicated for use in the field and a 135-mm threshold was suggested when following the simpler tagging procedure to implant 9-mm tags [20]. Low survival was observed for larval sea lamprey with an average length under 120 mm even with 8-mm tags (40% survival) and 9-mm tags (10% survival; [22]); however, recent research demonstrated substantially higher survival rates (97% field; 94% laboratory) for larval Pacific Lamprey implanted with 8.4 mm × 1.4 mm FDX PIT tags [23]. Schreck et al [18] suggested 150 mm as a minimum size using 8-mm PIT tags; our findings suggest this may be conservative as 82.3% of lamprey in our study <150 mm survived with larger tags (12 mm × 2.12 mm).…”

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“…Previous field studies of PIT tagged lamprey have been limited to the detection of ammocoetes or lamprey that had begun to metamorphose using portable detection equipment that can be slowly and repeatedly passed over an area [17,22]. Although shorter lamprey can be successfully tagged with 8.4-mm PIT tags [23], detection range is generally reduced as tag size decreases [12]. To effectively detect outmigrating sea lamprey, studies should utilize the largest tags possible to maximize the probability of detection when using stream-spanning wire arrays.…”

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Assessment of PIT tag retention and post-tagging survival in metamorphosing juvenile sea lamprey

et al. 2017

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Background: Passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags have been used to document and monitor the movement, behavior, or survival of numerous species of fishes. Data on short-and long-term survival and tag retention are needed before initiating studies using PIT tags on a new species or life stage. We evaluated the survival and tag retention of 153 metamorphosing juvenile sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus tagged with 12-mm PIT tags on three occasions using a simple surgical procedure. Results:Tag retention was 100 and 98.6% at 24 h and 28-105 days post-tagging. Of the lamprey that retained their tags, 87.3% had incisions sufficiently healed to prevent further loss. Survival was 100 and 92.7% at 24 h and 41-118 day post-tagging with no significant difference in survival between tagged and untagged control lamprey. Of the 11 lamprey that died, four had symptoms that indicated their death was directly related to tagging. Survival was positively correlated with sea lamprey length. Conclusions:Given the overall high level of survival and tag retention in this study, future studies can utilize 12-mm PIT tags to monitor metamorphosing juvenile sea lamprey movement and migration patterns.

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Assessment of PIT tag retention and post-tagging survival in metamorphosing juvenile sea lamprey

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“…As is the case with all research efforts that involve attaching devices to animals, researchers must make every effort to minimize the adverse effects of equipping animals with PIT tags. There are numerous studies of the effects of PIT tags on survival and behavior, with most of this research focused on fish (Keck, 1994;Low et al, 2005;Nicolaus et al, 2008;Burdick, 2011;Thorstad et al, 2013;Guimaraes et al, 2014;Ratnayake et al, 2014;Moser et al, 2017;Schlicht and Kempenaers, 2018). The vast majority of these studies conclude that the effect of implanted PIT tags is negligible.…”

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An Arduino-Based RFID Platform for Animal Research

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been broadly applied in the biological sciences to yield new insights into behavior, cognition, population biology, and distributions. RFID systems entail wireless communication between small tags that, when stimulated by an appropriate radio frequency transmission, emit a weak, short-range wireless signal that conveys a unique ID number. These tags, which often operate without a battery, can be attached to animals such that their presence at a particular location can be detected by an RFID reader. This paper describes an RFID data-logging system that can serve as the core for a wide variety of field and laboratory applications for monitoring the activities of individual animals. The core electronics are modeled on an Arduino circuit board, which is a hobbyist electronics system. Users can customize the hardware and software to accommodate their needs. We demonstrate the utility of the system with cursory descriptions of three real-world research applications. The first is a large-scale deployment that was used to examine individual breeding behaviors across four local populations of Wood Ducks. The second application employed an array of RFID-enabled bird feeders that allowed for tests of spatial cognition. Third, we describe a nest-box monitoring system that both records visits from breeding birds and administers experimental treatments, such as increasing temperature or playing audio recordings, in accordance to the presence/absence of individual birds. With these examples we do not attempt to relate details with regard to research findings; rather our intent is to demonstrate some of the possibilities enabled by our low-cost RFID system. Detailed descriptions, design files, and code are made available by means of the Open Science Framework.

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“…Passively integrated transponder tags (PIT tags) have been used to track individual movements in a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial animals (e.g. Gray, Killion, Roloff, Dotters, & Engstrom, 2016;Hua, Jiao, Neves, & Jones, 2015;Moser, Jackson, Mueller, Maine, & Davisson, 2017;O'Donnell, Thompson, & Semlitsch, 2016). Passively integrated transponder-tag life is long-lasting (>10 years), which allows for long-term monitoring of animals, and PIT tags are relatively inexpensive.…”

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Estimation of vital population rates to assess the relative health of mussel assemblages in the Upper Mississippi River

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Native freshwater mussels are a guild of benthic, filter feeding invertebrates that perform important ecological functions in rivers. Because of their long lifespans (30–50 years or longer), mussels are slow to respond to human‐induced alterations. Thus, development of sensitive indicators of mussel population responses to river conditions and management would be beneficial. Compared to marine species, estimation of vital rates (e.g. survival, growth) in freshwater mussels has received little attention. We placed passively integrated transponder tags on 578 mussels of four species (Amblema plicata, Cyclonaias pustulosa, Obliquaria reflexa, and Pleurobema sintoxia) in a well‐studied mussel assemblage in a side channel of the upper Mississippi River. Growth and survival of tagged mussels were assessed annually for 4 years across core (high density) and peripheral (low density) areas of the assemblage. Overall survival was highly variable, ranging from c. 15 to 90%, and was related to life history, habitat quality, and hydrologic events. Survival, which varied significantly among species and over time, was consistently higher in the dense and species‐rich core of the mussel assemblage, relative to the periphery because substrates were consistently more stable in the core of the mussel bed relative to the periphery. Substrate movement during low flows was an order of magnitude lower in the core relative to the periphery, and survival was inversely related to stability of river substrates. Patterns in habitat‐specific survival indicate source–sink population dynamics such that mussels in the core habitat provide recruitment to the periphery, but mussels in the periphery are subject to unsustainably low survival; additional studies to track the source of recruitment in the periphery are needed to test this hypothesis. Growth rate did not vary significantly between core and peripheral areas but did vary by species. Growth rate (proportional change per year) declined with age, and was similar at mean age for A. plicata (0.016 per year), P. sintoxia (0.015 per year), and C. pustulosa (0.013 per year), but much lower for O. reflexa (0.008 per year). Effective management decisions for mussels requires a better understanding of how vital rates govern populations and how they vary across a suite of physical and biological factors. Information on how population vital rates vary among species and over time gives managers another tool to understand how mussels may respond to management actions such as habitat restoration projects. Given the importance of substrate stability inferred from this study, management actions that maintain or increase substrate stability are likely to result in high quality mussel assemblages and may restore a valuable component of ecosystem function in this region.

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Effects of passive integrated transponder (PIT) implantation on Pacific lamprey ammocoetes

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Assessment of PIT tag retention and post-tagging survival in metamorphosing juvenile sea lamprey

Assessment of PIT tag retention and post-tagging survival in metamorphosing juvenile sea lamprey

An Arduino-Based RFID Platform for Animal Research

Estimation of vital population rates to assess the relative health of mussel assemblages in the Upper Mississippi River

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