Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

By Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, J. Oliver, Hollie Putnam, Ruth D. Gates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. A. Negri
2. Andrew Heyward
3. M. Omori
4. B. Willis
5. P. Harrison
6. Carly J. Randall
7. M. Oppen
8. W. Chan

In Oceanography

1. M. Omori
2. A. Negri
3. B. Willis
4. Carly J. Randall
5. T. Wernberg
6. Andrew Heyward
7. P. Harrison
8. M. Mayer‐Pinto

Citations in the corpus

• Coral propagation: a review of techniques for ornamental trade and reef restoration (2017, background): “…selected in breeding programmes aimed to enhance the robustness and survival of corals produced for the ornamental trade in the future. van Oppen et al. (2015) include selective breeding in their proposition to assist the natural evolutionary process of corals to cope with the changing…”
• Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures (2021, background): “…the genetic and physiological mechanisms that dictate thermal tolerance, and improve efforts to genetically engineer stress tolerant corals (i.e., assisted evolution; van Oppen et al. 2015; Jin et al. 2016) and restore reefs through assisted migration (Dixon et al. 2015; van Oppen et al. 2017).”
• Coral restoration research and technical developments: what we have learned so far (2019, background): “…that correlate with stress-tolerant host phenotypes and identify the mechanisms driving high survival of particular coral cohorts (Quigley et al. 2018). van Oppen et al. (2015) aimed to cross-breed corals that have survived massive bleaching events and track the resilience of the offspring.”
• Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene (2020, background): “Finally, and perhaps most importantly, approaches using sexual reproduction promote genetic diversity, which is central to species conservation (Baums 2008, van Oppen et al. 2015, 2017).”
• Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions (2019, methodology): “…possibilities range from selective breeding of more resilient individuals to the creation of genetically modified organisms via direct genetic manipulations (van Oppen et al., 2015), which has recently been piloted using CRISPR/ Cas9‐genome editing (Cleves, Strader, Bay, Pringle, & Matz, 2018).”
• Hybridization as a conservation management tool (2019, background): “…(Carlson, Cunningham, & Westley, 2014; Chan et al., 2018; Hamilton & Miller 2016; Hoffmann & Sgrò 2011; Jones & Monaco 2009; Meier et al., 2017; van Oppen et al., 2015, 2017; Whiteley, Fitzpatrick, Funk, & Tallmon, 2015; see Table 1 for definitions of terminologies related to hybridization).”