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- A unique book, the first one with this focus and content
- Chapter authors are leaders and upcoming leaders in the field
- A huge amount of literature will be synthesized in the one work
Part of the book series: Coral Reefs of the World (CORW, volume 15)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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