The health of the world's oceans is intrinsically linked to the biodiversity of the ecosystems
they sustain. The importance of protecting and maintaining ocean biodiversity has been …

The rich biological diversity in the ocean, estimated to range from 0.7 to 1.0 million
eukaryotic species (Appeltans et al. 2012), with millions more prokaryotic (Curtis et al. 2002) …

Marine biodiversity encompasses a range of hierarchical levels, including genetic, species,
ecosystem and functional diversity. Interactions among such levels determine ultimately the …

Population genomics is revolutionizing biology and stimulating new research questions and
directions. While human health has driven many of the genomics tools and approaches, all …

While much of the ocean still remains to be explored, it is now known that it is extremely rich
in biological diversity, including organisms which are host to unique genetic resources …

The 'ocean genome'is the foundation upon which all marine ecosystems rest and is defined
here as the ensemble of genetic material present in all marine biodiversity, including both …

Marine and coastal biological diversity (biodiversity) encompasses the enormous variety of
marine and coastal species and their genetic variety, the global ocean's cornucopia of living …

The rapid growth in genomic techniques provides the potential to transform how we protect,
manage, and conserve marine life. Further, solutions to boost the resilience of marine …

The diversity of marine life is being affected dramatically by fishery operations, chemical
pollution and eutrophication, alteration of physical habitat, exotic species invasion, and …

The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity has established an international framework for
broader conservation objectives for the management of ocean use activities (cf. Sainsbury …