Biocontrol of crown-of-thorns starfish using genomics and proteomics

利用基因组学和蛋白质组学对棘冠海星进行生物防治

• 批准号: LP170101049
• 负责人: Prof Bernard Degnan
• 金额: $ 39.49万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2018-10-16 至 2022-10-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP170101049
• 关键词: Biocontrol; crown; thorns; starfish; using

This project aims to address destructive outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), a voracious predator of corals and a major threat to coral reefs. This project builds upon recent sequencing of COTS genome and proteomes to identify communication factors that attract COTS to each other. Based on these natural attractants, the project will fabricate COTS-specific baits for future large scale deployment. Currently COTS are culled using expensive diver-based approaches. Outcomes for this project are expected to augment, if not alleviate, these inefficient biocontrol approaches and provide an environmentally-benign and scalable solution to one of the biggest threats to the health and resilience of the Great Barrier Reef and reefs worldwide.

该项目旨在解决棘冠海星(COTS)的破坏性暴发问题，COTS是一种贪婪的珊瑚捕食者，是珊瑚礁的主要威胁。该项目建立在最近对COTS基因组和蛋白质组进行测序的基础上，以确定相互吸引COTS的通信因素。基于这些自然引诱剂，该项目将为未来的大规模部署制造COTS专用诱饵。目前，COT是使用昂贵的基于潜水员的方法进行筛选的。该项目的成果预计将加强(如果不是减轻)这些低效的生物控制方法，并为世界各地大堡礁和珊瑚礁的健康和复原力面临的最大威胁之一提供一个无害环境和可推广的解决方案。