Systems Biology of Marine Ecosystems

This book describes the latest advances in systems biology in four plant-based marine ecosystems: seaweeds, seagrasses, microalgae, and corals. Marine organisms that inhabit the oceanic environment experience a diverse range of environmental fluctuations, anthropogenic stress, and threats from invasive species and pathogens. System biology integrates physiology, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics into numerical models and is emerging as an important approach to elucidate the functional adaptations of marine organisms to adverse environmental conditions. This book focuses on how ecophysiology, omics platforms, their integration (a systems biology perspective), and next generation sequencing tools are being used to address the stress response of marine seaweeds, seagrasses, corals, marine microbe diversity, and micro-and macroalgae/corals-bacterial interactions to global climate change and anthropogenic activities. The contents of the book are of special interest tograduate and postgraduate marine biology students and marine biology researchers, particularly those interested in marine ecology, stress physiology of marine macrophytes/corals/phytoplankton, and environmental microbiology. This book would also be of interest to marine engineers engaged in the management and conservation of our valuable marine resources.

01. Macroalgal Functional Genomics: A missing area. - 02. Tolerance pathways to desiccation stress in seaweeds. - 03. Marine metal pollution and effects on seaweed species. - 04. Seaweed lipidomics in the era of ' omics' biology- A contemporary perspective. - 05. Volatiles in the aquatic marine ecosystem: ethylene and related plant hormones and sporulation in red seaweeds. - 06. Abiotic stress of seagrasses: Recent advances in transcriptomics, genomics and systems biology. - 07. Photobiology of seagrasses: a systems biology perspective. - 08. Systems Biology and the Seagrass Paradox: Adaptation, Acclimation and Survival of Marine Angiosperms in a Changing Ocean Climate. - 09. Gas and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry based metabolic profiling of marine angiosperm Zostera muelleri (Alismatales, Zosteraceae). - 10. Marine microalgae: systems biology from ' omics. - 11. Application of ' omic approaches to microbial oceanography. - 12. Effects of Ocean Acidification and UVRadiation on Marine Photosynthetic Carbon Fixation 13. Oxidative stress induced bioprospecting of microalgae. - 14. Bioactive small molecules mediate microalgal-bacterial interactions. - 15. Exploring the complexity of macroalgal-bacterial interactions through interkingdom signalling system. - 16. Role of bacteria in coral ecosystems.