Reef Breath Testing (RBT): exhaled volatile-gas biomarkers of coral health

珊瑚礁呼吸测试 (RBT)：呼出的挥发性气体是珊瑚健康的生物标志物

• 批准号: DP200100091
• 负责人: Dr Jennifer Matthews
• 金额: $ 35.89万
• 依托单位: University of Technology Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2023-03-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200100091
• 关键词: Reef; Breath; Testing; RBT; exhaled

This Project aims to uncover volatile gas "fingerprints" of coral reef taxa and how they are diagnostic of healthy reef functioning over space and time. All organisms emit distinct volatile gases via physiological fine-tuning and signalling as their environments change. Whilst coral reef taxa and coral reefs are hotspots for volatile gas emissions, which gases are produced, when and why, is entirely unexplored. This project unites a multidisciplinary team of experts to, for the first time, couple volatile gas assessment, metabolic physiology and functional genomics techniques to transform understanding of how key volatile gases underpin coral resilience to stress and disease, which is essential to improve coral reef ecosystem management.

该项目旨在揭示珊瑚礁分类群的挥发性气体“指纹”，以及它们如何在空间和时间上诊断健康的珊瑚礁功能。所有的生物体都会随着环境的变化通过生理微调和信号发出不同的挥发性气体。虽然珊瑚礁分类群和珊瑚礁是挥发性气体排放的热点，但哪些气体产生，何时以及为什么产生，完全未被探索。该项目联合了一个多学科专家团队，首次将挥发性气体评估、代谢生理学和功能基因组学技术结合起来，以改变对关键挥发性气体如何支撑珊瑚对压力和疾病的适应能力的理解，这对改善珊瑚礁生态系统管理至关重要。