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  • Systems Biology

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  • Environmental toxins impact all biological levels, from molecular to ecosystem.
  • Traditional ecotoxicology faces challenges in assessing full ecosystem-level consequences due to observational and experimental limits.
  • -Omics technologies provide high-throughput analysis of cellular processes and biodiversity in response to environmental change.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore recent advances in -omics technologies for assessing toxic substances in the environment.
  • To demonstrate how -omics can link molecular mechanisms of toxicity with ecological effects.
  • To highlight the transformative potential of -omics in ecotoxicology.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing functional genomics to discover novel molecular toxicity mechanisms.
  • Developing high-throughput transcriptomics for chemical testing at the biological pathway level.
  • Employing environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding for community-level chemical effect assessment in mesocosms and field studies.

Main Results:

  • Functional genomics identifies new chemical toxicity pathways.
  • Reduced transcriptomics enables rapid, dose-dependent chemical assessments.
  • eDNA metabarcoding effectively monitors chemical impacts on biological communities.

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  • -Omics advances enhance understanding of toxicity mechanisms and environmental effects.
  • These technologies improve the relevance and immediacy of toxicological assessments.
  • -Omics offer a new paradigm for ecotoxicology by integrating systems biology with ecological models.