New Tools to Decipher, Predict and Manage Pacific Oyster Mortality Episodes

Funding: 2020: $80,000
2017: $100,000
2018: $205,000
2019: $185,000

Project Member(s): Seymour, J.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
NSW Department of Primary Industries

Start year: 2017

Publications:

Green, TJ, Siboni, N, King, WL, Labbate, M, Seymour, JR & Raftos, D 2019, 'Simulated Marine Heat Wave Alters Abundance and Structure of Vibrio Populations Associated with the Pacific Oyster Resulting in a Mass Mortality Event', Microbial Ecology, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 736-747.
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King, WL, Jenkins, C, Go, J, Siboni, N, Seymour, JR & Labbate, M 2019, 'Characterisation of the Pacific Oyster Microbiome During a Summer Mortality Event', Microbial Ecology, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 502-512.
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King, WL, Jenkins, C, Seymour, JR & Labbate, M 2019, 'Oyster disease in a changing environment: Decrypting the link between pathogen, microbiome and environment', Marine Environmental Research, vol. 143, pp. 124-140.
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King, WL, Siboni, N, Kahlke, T, Green, TJ, Labbate, M & Seymour, JR 2019, 'A New High Throughput Sequencing Assay for Characterizing the Diversity of Natural Vibrio Communities and Its Application to a Pacific Oyster Mortality Event', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 10, pp. 2907-2907.
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King, WL, Siboni, N, Williams, NLR, Kahlke, T, Nguyen, KV, Jenkins, C, Dove, M, O’Connor, W, Seymour, JR & Labbate, M 2019, 'Variability in the Composition of Pacific Oyster Microbiomes Across Oyster Families Exhibiting Different Levels of Susceptibility to OsHV-1 μvar Disease', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 10, no. MAR.
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FOR Codes: Microbial Ecology, Aquaculture, Control of Pests, Diseases and Exotic Species in Marine Environments, Aquaculture Oysters, Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Coastal and Estuarine Environments, Control of pests, diseases and exotic species in marine environments , Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.