New tools to decipher, predict and manage pacific oyster mortality episodes

该项目旨在将尖端基因组和分子生物学工具与新的定量模型分析相结合，以确定牡蛎疾病事件背后的机制。牡蛎养殖业每年为澳大利亚经济贡献近1亿美元，是沿海社区的基石，但一直受到威胁这一重要第一产业的疾病的重创。虽然已经确定了一些病原体，但牡蛎病的环境催化剂仍然是一个谜。该项目的预期结果是创新的工具组合，提供了预测疾病事件的新能力，为澳大利亚牡蛎行业提供了一个预测、管理和预防代价高昂的疾病爆发的强大平台。通过确定环境阈值和牡蛎疾病危险期，该项目的预期成果是制定新的牡蛎养殖战略，旨在避免与疾病暴发相关的数百万美元损失。

This project aims to unite cutting-edge genomic and molecular biological tools with novel quantitative modelling analyses to identify the mechanisms behind oyster disease events. Oyster farming contributes almost $100 million to the Australian economy each year and is a cornerstone of coastal communities, but has been decimated by diseases that threaten this important primary industry. While some causative pathogens have been identified, the environmental catalysts of oyster disease remain a mystery. The expected outcome of this project is an innovative coupling of tools that provides new capacity to forecast disease events, delivering the Australian oyster industry a powerful platform to predict, manage and prevent costly disease outbreaks. By identifying environmental thresholds and oyster disease danger periods, an expected outcome of this project is the development of new oyster farming strategies aimed at avoiding multi-million dollar losses associated with disease outbreaks.