Environmental stress proteomics-investigating the effects of heavy metal pollution and ocean acidification in agriculturally important marine species

• Main Author: Sridevi Muralidharan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified; mass spectrometry; Heavy metals > Environmental aspects; amphipods; Heavy metals > Environmental aspects > Analysis; proteomics; Heavy metals; oysters; environmental stress; CO2; hypercapnia; Heavy metals > Environmental aspects > Research; Heavy metals > Environmental aspects > Case studies; heavy metal stress; biomarker discovery; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25949/19435511.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Environmental_stress_proteomics-investigating_the_effects_of_heavy_metal_pollution_and_ocean_acidification_in_agriculturally_important_marine_species/19435511

This thesis is aimed at furthering our understanding of the biological impacts in important marine species of two environmental issues facing Australia - heavy metal pollution from anthropogenic activities and ocean acidification from increasing carbon dioxide levels. The effects of these stressors were explored by investigating the stress responses in agriculturally important aquatic marine animals, such as oysters and amphipods, using quantitative proteomics. We demonstrated the usefulness of labeled as well as label-free proteomics approaches in gaining insight of such environmental stresses in these animals at the cellular and molecular level.