Seascape genomics as a new tool to empower coral reef conservation strategies: An example on north-western Pacific Acropora digitifera.

ABSTRACT: Coral reefs are suffering a major decline due to the environmental constraints imposed by climate change. Over the last 20 years, three major coral bleaching events occurred in concomitance with anomalous heatwaves, provoking a severe loss of coral cover worldwide. The conservation strategies for preserving reefs, as they are implemented now, cannot cope with global climatic shifts. Consequently, researchers are advocating for preservation networks to be set-up to reinforce coral adaptive potential. However, the main obstacle to this implementation is that studies on coral adaption are usually hard to generalize at the scale of a reef system. Here, we study the relationships between genotype frequencies and environmental characteristics of the sea (seascape genomics), in combination with c

SUBMITTER: Selmoni O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7463334 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature