Bivalve omics: state of the art and potential applications for the biomonitoring of harmful marine compounds.

ABSTRACT: The extraordinary progress experienced by sequencing technologies and bioinformatics has made the development of omic studies virtually ubiquitous in all fields of life sciences nowadays. However, scientific attention has been quite unevenly distributed throughout the different branches of the tree of life, leaving molluscs, one of the most diverse animal groups, relatively unexplored and without representation within the narrow collection of well established model organisms. Within this Phylum, bivalve molluscs play a fundamental role in the functioning of the marine ecosystem, constitute very valuable commercial resources in aquaculture, and have been widely used as sentinel organisms in the biomonitoring of marine pollution. Yet, it has only been very recently that this complex group of

SUBMITTER: Suarez-Ulloa V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3853733 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature