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Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140657&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; Methods and Sampling: &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Experimental Treatments&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The monoculture treatments included six wild populations and two selectively bred populations (DEBY and LOLA) owned by the Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center (ABC, Virginia Institute of Marine Science). Wild populations consisted of Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas oysters. Sites will be referred to as acronyms in the remainder of this paper: ME, NH, VA, FL, LA and TX, respectively. Such locations span the native range of the eastern oyster, which is structured by two distinct genetic clusters (“Atlantic” and “Gulf”) separated by the Florida Peninsula (Puritz et al., 2022; Reeb and Avise, 1990). The LOLA selection line is considered local to Lewisetta and DEBY is considered local to the York River, for this study. Oysters for each monoculture were sourced September–November 2022 and conditioned at the Acuff Center for Aquaculture at VIMS until spawning in May 2023.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;For each treatment, oysters were strip spawned and sperm from ten males per population were individually crossed with a pool of ten eggs from equally represented females to limit sperm competition (Levitan, 2004). Sperm from each male was then crossed with eggs from all females, producing new combinations and increasing genetic diversity in a polyculture treatment, “LARMIX”. The larvae were raised following standard hatchery (days 0–30) and nursery (days 30–77) methods. On day 77, a second polyculture treatment, “SEEDMIX”, was created by equally mixing seed from each monoculture to increase genetic diversity while maintaining original genotypes.&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;
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Field Deployment&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Seed from each treatment were split into six bags (approximately 1,200 per bag). Three replicate bags were deployed in bottom cages at east common garden site in August 2023 and assessed in November 2023 (time point 1), May 2024 (time point 2), November 2024 (time point 3), and May 2025 (final time point). At the first assessment, 40 oysters per bag were individually tagged. At each time point, tagged oysters were determined to be alive or dead. Note that not all tags were found at every assessment, some were missed due to debris on the oyster shell and others had become separated from the oyster in between assessments. For tagged oysters that could be identified, shell length (longest distance from the hinge to the bill) and width (longest distance perpendicular to the length) were measured. To reduce density–dependent effects, bags were thinned to 225 oysters at the second assessment (Marshall and Dunham, 2013).&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Genetic data&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Gill tissue was taken from each parent (&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;n&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; = 160, 83 dams and 77 sires) after spawning. At the second assessment, 267 tagged juvenile oysters were chosen at random for a nonlethal biopsy to collect gill tissue. All samples were stored in 95% ethanol at -80ºC. DNA was extracted using the Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit and shipped to Neogen Genomics in Lincoln, NE for genotyping on a 200K ThermoFisher Affymetrix Axiom SNP array derived from a 600K array assigned to the haplotig–masked &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Crassostrea virginica&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; reference genome (Gómez-Chiarri et al., 2015; Guo et al., 2023; Modak et al., 2021; Puritz et al., 2024). The sequencing pipeline is outlined in Bajaj and Mongillo et al. (2026). Raw genotypes were processed and filtered in R v4.4.2 and a full, unimputed, SNP set was used for further analysis.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;</gco:CharacterString>
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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The monoculture treatments included six wild populations and two selectively bred populations (DEBY and LOLA) owned by the Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center (ABC, Virginia Institute of Marine Science). Wild populations consisted of Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas oysters. Sites will be referred to as acronyms in the remainder of this paper: ME, NH, VA, FL, LA and TX, respectively. Such locations span the native range of the eastern oyster, which is structured by two distinct genetic clusters (“Atlantic” and “Gulf”) separated by the Florida Peninsula (Puritz et al., 2022; Reeb and Avise, 1990). The LOLA selection line is considered local to Lewisetta and DEBY is considered local to the York River, for this study. Oysters for each monoculture were sourced September–November 2022 and conditioned at the Acuff Center for Aquaculture at VIMS until spawning in May 2023.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

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&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Seed from each treatment were split into six bags (approximately 1,200 per bag). Three replicate bags were deployed in bottom cages at east common garden site in August 2023 and assessed in November 2023 (time point 1), May 2024 (time point 2), November 2024 (time point 3), and May 2025 (final time point). At the first assessment, 40 oysters per bag were individually tagged. At each time point, tagged oysters were determined to be alive or dead. Note that not all tags were found at every assessment, some were missed due to debris on the oyster shell and others had become separated from the oyster in between assessments. For tagged oysters that could be identified, shell length (longest distance from the hinge to the bill) and width (longest distance perpendicular to the length) were measured. To reduce density–dependent effects, bags were thinned to 225 oysters at the second assessment (Marshall and Dunham, 2013).&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Genetic data&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Gill tissue was taken from each parent (&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;n&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; = 160, 83 dams and 77 sires) after spawning. At the second assessment, 267 tagged juvenile oysters were chosen at random for a nonlethal biopsy to collect gill tissue. All samples were stored in 95% ethanol at -80ºC. DNA was extracted using the Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit and shipped to Neogen Genomics in Lincoln, NE for genotyping on a 200K ThermoFisher Affymetrix Axiom SNP array derived from a 600K array assigned to the haplotig–masked &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Crassostrea virginica&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; reference genome (Gómez-Chiarri et al., 2015; Guo et al., 2023; Modak et al., 2021; Puritz et al., 2024). The sequencing pipeline is outlined in Bajaj and Mongillo et al. (2026). Raw genotypes were processed and filtered in R v4.4.2 and a full, unimputed, SNP set was used for further analysis.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;</gco:CharacterString>
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- Loaded parents.csv into table named 1008652_v1_cvimvp-parents, with header row 1, and &amp;quot;&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;NA&amp;quot; set as missing value identifiers.
- Deleted column Mortality_Date (no values in this column and it was not included in the column descriptions by the data submitter).
- Renamed columns Pass.Fail to Pass_Fail, QC.call_rate to QC_call_rate, Average.call.rate.for.passing.samples to Average_call_rate_for_passing_samples, Sample.Filename to Sample_Filename, and QC.het_rate to QC_het_rate, replacing periods with underscores to conform field names to naming convention
- Set data types for all columns: Alive as boolean; Average_call_rate_for_passing_samples, DQC, QC_call_rate, QC_het_rate, Shell_length_cm, Shell_width_cm, call_rate, and het_rate as number; Sperm_Motility as integer; remaining columns (Buffer, Extraction_plan_Key, Extraction_plan_Label, ID_SiteDate, Key_Vial, Key_box, Key_ind, Label_ind, New_Growth, Pass_Fail, PlateID_Key, Sample_Filename, Sex, SiteDate_Key, Tissue, Vial_Label, clean_ID, pops_Key) as string
- Updated column metadata with descriptions, standard parameter name IDs, and supplied units for all columns, including notes describing Alive, Average_call_rate_for_passing_samples, Buffer, DQC, Extraction_plan_Key, Extraction_plan_Label, ID_SiteDate, Key_Vial, Key_box, Key_ind, Label_ind, New_Growth, Pass_Fail, PlateID_Key, QC_call_rate, QC_het_rate, Sample_Filename, Sex, Shell_length_cm, Shell_width_cm, SiteDate_Key, Sperm_Motility, Tissue, Vial_Label, call_rate, clean_ID, and het_rate
- Updated package-level metadata with per-column summary statistics (counts, minimum, and maximum values) for all columns
- Saved table as 1008652_v1_cvimvp-parents.csv

Curation Actions Performed on Metadata
* Standard metadata entry and formatting of provided metadata.
* Data manager set the temporal and spatial bounds to the same lat lon and time range was used as the related Environmental dataset (See related datasets) which included the broodstock source population collection time and locations.

Known Issues [Potentially Impacting Reuse]
* Information for sites (lat,lons, etc) and information for source populations of parental broodstock genotyped were not included in this dataset directly. See Related Datasets where that information was provided. However, the exact way to associate that data with this dataset was not explicitly stated (shared keys not explained). However there is an implied association between site IDs and source populations/spawning treatment IDs due to the shared use of state abbreviations within the values (e.g. source population identified by &amp;quot;FL-KingPlan&amp;quot; may be from the FL site &amp;quot;W3_FL, 30.44003,-81.43638&amp;quot;).</gco:CharacterString>
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