Molecular Biomarkers for Assessing Marine Ecosystem Health
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 August 2025 | Viewed by 26
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Interests: genomic/transcriptomic; marine biotechnology; metabolites in microalgae; nutraceuticals in fish; acquaculture
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Interests: chemical ecology; drug discovery; biotechnology; marine invertebrates; microalgae; diatoms; sexual biology; invertebrate physiology; ecological modelling; aquaculture
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Dear Colleagues,
Biomarkers, or bioindicators, consist of metric tools that allow researchers to perform risk assessments and provide objective information useful to solve health or environmental problems. Marine health risk assessment is well supported by molecular biology, a key discipline that greatly contributes to these evaluations. In fact, the genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome can be affected by xenobiotics, causing measurable changes that might be useful biomarkers. Such changes may greatly depend on individual genetic background. Marine biodiversity is threatened by several anthropogenic pressures, pollution deriving from the discharge of chemical contaminants in the sea, as well as the presence of microplastics, influencing the health of organisms, their ability to recover their homeostatic status, and in turn endangering biodiversity. Molecular and cellular responses to chemical pollutants, known as biomarkers, are extensively used worldwide and are useful for detecting exposure and for assessing the effects of pollutants on biota in environmental monitoring in order to assess the impact of highly persistent pollutants and toxic metals, as well as microplastics, on the marine ecosystem biomarkers. Pollution biomarkers can be useful tools for monitoring and assessing pollution threats to marine biodiversity, both in the environmental quality monitoring of protected areas and in the assessment of the health status of species at risk.
Dr. Maria Costantini
Dr. Valerio Zupo
Dr. Roberta Esposito
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- biomarkers
- biomonitoring
- marine organisms
- pollution
- metals
- microplastics
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