Chapter 23- Developments in Exploration and Use of Marine Genetic Resources

ROBERT BLASIAK; ELLEN KENCHINGTON; JESÚS M. ARRIETA; JORGE RAFAEL BERMÚDEZ-MONSALVE; HILCONIDA CALUMPONG; SHAO CHANGWEI; SANAE CHIBA; HEBE DIONISI; CARLOS GARCIA-SOTO; HELENA VIEIRA; BORIS WAWRIK

Second World Ocean Assessment (WOA II), Regular process for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socioeconomic aspects

United Nations publication

Lugar: United Nations, New York; Año: 2021; p. 363 - 379

Keynote pointsMarine genetic resources continue to be the focus of an expanding range of commercial and non-commercial applications.Rapidly decreasing sequencing and gene synthesis costs and swift advances in the metabolic engineering and synthetic biology fields within the biotechnology sector have rendered scientists less reliant on physical samples and increasingly dependent on the exponentially expanding public databases of genetic sequence data.Sponges and algae continue to attract substantial interest for the bioactive properties of their natural compounds.Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals,1 capacity-building issues persist, with entities in a handful of countries conducting the majority of research and development associated with marine genetic resources.International processes and agreements with relevance to marine genetic resources include the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the intergovernmental conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction