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Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age

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Part of the book series: Coral Reefs of the World (CORW, volume 15)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction to Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age

    • Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Manuel Aranda Lastra
    Pages 1-5
  3. Maximizing Genetic Diversity in Coral Restoration Projects

    • Iliana B. Baums, Valérie F. Chamberland, Nicolas S. Locatelli, Trinity Conn
    Pages 35-53
  4. Selective Breeding to Enhance the Adaptive Potential of Corals

    • Crawford Drury, Carlo Caruso, Kate Quigley
    Pages 71-84
  5. Coral Conservation from the Genomic Perspective on Symbiodiniaceae Diversity and Function in the Holobiont

    • Sarah Shah, Katherine E. Dougan, Debashish Bhattacharya, Cheong Xin Chan
    Pages 85-96
  6. Dynamics of Bacterial Communities on Coral Reefs: Implications for Conservation

    • Rebecca L. Maher, Hannah E. Epstein, Rebecca Vega Thurber
    Pages 97-116
  7. Increasing Coral Thermal Bleaching Tolerance via the Manipulation of Associated Microbes

    • Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Matthew R. Nitschke
    Pages 117-133
  8. Can Gene Expression Studies Inform Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration?

    • Carly D. Kenkel, Rachel M. Wright
    Pages 151-166
  9. Informing Coral Reef Conservation Through Metabolomic Approaches

    • Caitlin A. Lawson, Emma Camp, Simon K. Davy, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Jennifer Matthews, David J. Suggett
    Pages 179-202
  10. Environmental DNA for Biodiversity Monitoring of Coral Reefs

    • Zoe T. Richards, Michael Stat, Matthew Heydenrych, Joseph D. DiBattista
    Pages 203-224
  11. Cryopreservation to Conserve Genetic Diversity of Reef-Building Corals

    • Jessica Bouwmeester, Jonathan Daly, Nikolas Zuchowicz, Mary Hagedorn
    Pages 225-240
  12. Synthesis: Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age

    • Manuel Aranda Lastra, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
    Pages 241-242

About this book

The rapid demise of coral reefs worldwide has spurred efforts to develop innovative conservation and restoration methods. Many of these rely on omics approaches to produce genetic, genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic or metabolomic data to inform conservation and restoration interventions. This book provides the state of play of this field. It discusses topics ranging from how genomic and environmental DNA (eDNA) data can be used to inform marine protected area design and cryopreservation strategies, the use of knowledge on adaptive genetic and epigenetic variation to maximise environmental stress tolerance of coral stock, harnessing transcriptome data to develop early warning markers, the use of microbial symbiont omics data in guiding restoration strategies, to applications of metabolomics and genetic engineering. How best to translate omics data to resource managers is also discussed.


Keywords

  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Coral Reefs
  • Environmental DNA
  • Genetics
  • Omics
  • Restoration

Editors and Affiliations

  • Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia

    Madeleine J. H. van Oppen

  • Red Sea Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

    Manuel Aranda Lastra

About the editors

​Madeleine van Oppen is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Institute of Marine Science. She completed her PhD on the molecular biogeography of seaweeds in 1995, followed by postdocs on the population and evolutionary genetics of Cichlid fishes and reef-building corals. Her current research is aimed at enhancing climate resilience of corals.

 

Manuel Aranda is an Associate Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. In 2006 he completed his PhD on the evolution of gene regulatory networks in insects, followed by a postdoc in the same field before moving to work on corals. In his current research he uses genomics and epigenomics approaches to study the molecular underpinnings of the coral-algal symbiosis and the potential of human interventions to increase their resilience.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age

  • Editors: Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Manuel Aranda Lastra

  • Series Title: Coral Reefs of the World

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07055-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07054-9Published: 13 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07057-0Published: 14 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07055-6Published: 12 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2213-719X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-7203

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 242

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Biodiversity, Zoology, Molecular Ecology

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