Trends in the Application of “Omics” to Ecotoxicology and Stress Ecology
Our ability to predict and assess how environmental changes such as pollution and climate change affect components of the Earth’s biome is of paramount importance. This need positioned the fields of ecotoxicology and stress ecology at the center of environmental monitoring efforts. Advances in these...
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| description | Our ability to predict and assess how environmental changes such as pollution and climate change affect components of the Earth’s biome is of paramount importance. This need positioned the fields of ecotoxicology and stress ecology at the center of environmental monitoring efforts. Advances in these interdisciplinary fields depend not only on conceptual leaps but also on technological advances and data integration. High-throughput “omics” technologies enabled the measurement of molecular changes at virtually all levels of an organism’s biological organization and thus continue to influence how the impacts of stressors are understood. This bibliometric review describes literature trends (2000–2020) that indicate that more different stressors than species are studied each year but that only a few stressors have been studied in more than two phyla. At the same time, the molecular responses of a diverse set of non-model species have been investigated, but cross-species comparisons are still rare. While transcriptomics studies dominated until 2016, a shift towards proteomics and multiomics studies is apparent. There is now a wealth of data at functional omics levels from many phylogenetically diverse species. This review, therefore, addresses the question of how to integrate omics information across species. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff4a78aac3b24c70bff030e08a4064872023-11-22T18:20:32ZengMDPI AGGenes2073-44252021-09-011210148110.3390/genes12101481Trends in the Application of “Omics” to Ecotoxicology and Stress EcologyJoshua Niklas Ebner0Spring Ecology Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, SwitzerlandOur ability to predict and assess how environmental changes such as pollution and climate change affect components of the Earth’s biome is of paramount importance. This need positioned the fields of ecotoxicology and stress ecology at the center of environmental monitoring efforts. Advances in these interdisciplinary fields depend not only on conceptual leaps but also on technological advances and data integration. High-throughput “omics” technologies enabled the measurement of molecular changes at virtually all levels of an organism’s biological organization and thus continue to influence how the impacts of stressors are understood. This bibliometric review describes literature trends (2000–2020) that indicate that more different stressors than species are studied each year but that only a few stressors have been studied in more than two phyla. At the same time, the molecular responses of a diverse set of non-model species have been investigated, but cross-species comparisons are still rare. While transcriptomics studies dominated until 2016, a shift towards proteomics and multiomics studies is apparent. There is now a wealth of data at functional omics levels from many phylogenetically diverse species. This review, therefore, addresses the question of how to integrate omics information across species.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/10/1481ecotoxicologystress ecologyomicstrendstechnologytaxa |
| spellingShingle | Joshua Niklas Ebner Trends in the Application of “Omics” to Ecotoxicology and Stress Ecology Genes ecotoxicology stress ecology omics trends technology taxa |
| title | Trends in the Application of “Omics” to Ecotoxicology and Stress Ecology |
| title_full | Trends in the Application of “Omics” to Ecotoxicology and Stress Ecology |
| title_fullStr | Trends in the Application of “Omics” to Ecotoxicology and Stress Ecology |
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| title_short | Trends in the Application of “Omics” to Ecotoxicology and Stress Ecology |
| title_sort | trends in the application of omics to ecotoxicology and stress ecology |
| topic | ecotoxicology stress ecology omics trends technology taxa |
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