Marketing potential analysis of developed multi-species shellfish microarray for multiple sector commercialization

不列颠哥伦比亚省海岸线正面临来自海岸带利用竞争（如城市化、休闲娱乐和水产养殖）和潜在气候变化影响的越来越大的压力，这凸显了对沿海生态系统健康和功能有效诊断工具的需求。滤食性贝类提供重要的生态系统服务，是沿海生态系统的重要组成部分。评估贝类健康的主要问题之一是如何确定生物对自然环境中多种应激因子的反应，以及对外源污染和水产养殖方法等人为影响的反应。这里描述的产品是一个多物种寡阵列，专门设计用于评估海洋贻贝的应激反应。这种微阵列工具可以确定两种海洋贻贝对多种应激剂的应激反应，数据是通过数千个基因的基因表达谱变化获得的，通过扫描微阵列的激光发射可见。开发的微阵列具有许多积极的特征（全球市场，产品质量，广泛的应用），使该阵列与竞争对手相比具有显着的优势。这项技术的潜在用途包括废水管理、水产养殖管理、环境监测以及其他工业和研究领域。

The BC coastline is under increasing pressure from competing coastal zone utilization (e.g. urbanization, recreation and aquaculture) and potential climate change impacts, highlighting the need for effective diagnostic tools of coastal ecosystem health and function. Filter feeding shellfish provide essential ecosystem services and are an important component of the coastal ecosystem. One of the major problems in assessing shellfish health is how to determine the organism's response to multiple stressing agents in the natural environment, as well as to anthropogenic effects such as xenobiotic pollution and aquaculture husbandry methods. The product described here is a multi-species oligoarray specifically designed for utilization in the assessment of stress responses in marine mussels. This microarray tool allows the determination of stress responses in two species of marine mussels to multiple stressing agents, and data is obtained through the changes in gene expression profiles over thousands of genes, visualized through laser emissions of the scanned microarray. The developed microarray has a number of positive traits (global markets, product quality, broad application) that places this array in a position of significant advantage compared to competitors. Potential uses of this technology include in wastewater management, aquaculture management, environmental monitoring, and in other industrial and research areas.