Dataset: Filter area measurements from Oikopleura dioica tail beat kinematics and particle tracking experiments conducted in December 2015

All experimental animals were obtained from the appendicularian culture facility at the Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology in Bergen, Norway in December 2015. Oikopleura dioica were filmed individually following Gemmell et al. (2014). Images were recorded using an Edgertronic high-speed camera (1280 × 1024-pixel resolution, 500 frames per second) with brightfield illumination from a fiber optic light source, or a Photron FastCam Mini Ux100 (1280x1024, 125-1000 frames per second) with darkfield illumination from a tilting mirror base. The filming vessel was positioned on a manually adjustable stage between the light source and the camera. A long working-distance microscope objective (4x or 40x) was mounted to an adjustable-height optics clamp positioned between the filming vessel and the camera. Videos were converted to image stacks in QuickTime Pro. Day 1 animals were filmed in a 50-milliliter glass cuvette in treatments comprising 3 temperatures: 5° Celsius, 15° Celsius, and 25° Celsius.

The videos are attached as Supplemental Files (there is one .zip folder for each temperature treatment).