Genetic solution or dilution: can selective breeding future-proof oysters?

遗传解决方案或稀释：选择性育种可以保证未来的牡蛎吗？

• 批准号: DP150101363
• 负责人: Prof Melanie Bishop
• 金额: $ 23.99万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150101363
• 关键词: Genetic; solution; dilution; selective; breeding

This project aims to test whether the flow of beneficial genes from farmed oysters into wild oysters can make natural oyster beds and the ecological communities that they support more resilient to environmental change. Wild oysters are critical to the function of coastal ecosystems. However, wild oyster populations are threatened by environmental change in Australia and around the world. Selectively bred oysters bearing stress resistance genotypes are now commercially farmed in many estuaries on Australia's east coast and may be used to bolster wild oyster populations. This project endeavours to develop novel genetic strategies to future-proof oysters. Thus, the outcome of this project has potential to benefit entire ecosystems that depend upon oysters.

该项目旨在测试从养殖牡蛎到野生牡蛎的有益基因的流动是否可以使天然牡蛎床及其支持的生态群落对环境变化更具弹性。野生牡蛎对沿海生态系统的功能至关重要。然而，澳大利亚和世界各地的环境变化对野生牡蛎种群构成了威胁。现在，澳大利亚东海岸的许多河口都在商业化养殖携带抗逆性基因的选择性繁殖的牡蛎，并可能被用来增加野生牡蛎的数量。该项目致力于开发新的基因策略，以防止牡蛎的未来。因此，该项目的成果有可能造福于依赖牡蛎的整个生态系统。