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Main Authors: Levy, Natalie, Kundu, Samapti, Freckelton, Marnie, Dinasquet, Julie, Flores, Isabel, Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T, Tresguerres, Martin, De La Garza, Vanessa, Sun, Yazhi, Karimi, Zahra, Drury, Crawford, Jury, Christopher P, Hancock, Joshua R, Chen, Shaochen, Hadfield, Michael G, Wangpraseurt, Daniel
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: PNAS nexus 2025
Online Access:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40933367/
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author Levy, Natalie
Kundu, Samapti
Freckelton, Marnie
Dinasquet, Julie
Flores, Isabel
Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T
Tresguerres, Martin
De La Garza, Vanessa
Sun, Yazhi
Karimi, Zahra
Drury, Crawford
Jury, Christopher P
Hancock, Joshua R
Chen, Shaochen
Hadfield, Michael G
Wangpraseurt, Daniel
author_facet Levy, Natalie
Kundu, Samapti
Freckelton, Marnie
Dinasquet, Julie
Flores, Isabel
Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T
Tresguerres, Martin
De La Garza, Vanessa
Sun, Yazhi
Karimi, Zahra
Drury, Crawford
Jury, Christopher P
Hancock, Joshua R
Chen, Shaochen
Hadfield, Michael G
Wangpraseurt, Daniel
Levy, Natalie
Kundu, Samapti
Freckelton, Marnie
Dinasquet, Julie
Flores, Isabel
Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T
Tresguerres, Martin
De La Garza, Vanessa
Sun, Yazhi
Karimi, Zahra
Drury, Crawford
Jury, Christopher P
Hancock, Joshua R
Chen, Shaochen
Hadfield, Michael G
Wangpraseurt, Daniel
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Microbial living materials promote coral larval settlement. Levy, Natalie Kundu, Samapti Freckelton, Marnie Dinasquet, Julie Flores, Isabel Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T Tresguerres, Martin De La Garza, Vanessa Sun, Yazhi Karimi, Zahra Drury, Crawford Jury, Christopher P Hancock, Joshua R Chen, Shaochen Hadfield, Michael G Wangpraseurt, Daniel The global decline of coral reefs calls for new strategies to rapidly restock coral populations and maintain ecosystem functions and services. Low recruitment success on degraded reefs hampers coral sexual propagation and leads to reduced genetic diversity and impaired reef resilience. Here, we introduce a Bacterial Reef Ink (Brink) to assist in coral larval settlement. Brink is a photopolymerized living material that can be rapidly applied to restoration substrates and has been formulated to cultivate two settlement-inducing bacterial strains ( and ). Settlement assays performed with broadcast spawning () and brooding () Indo-Pacific corals showed that Brink-coated substrates increased settlement >5-fold compared with uncoated control substrates. Brink can be applied as a flat coating or patterned using light-assisted 3D bioprinting, enabling diverse applications in reef restoration and engineering. This approach demonstrates the potential of functional living materials to enhance coral ecosystem engineering and support coral reef rehabilitation.
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spellingShingle Microbial living materials promote coral larval settlement.
Levy, Natalie
Kundu, Samapti
Freckelton, Marnie
Dinasquet, Julie
Flores, Isabel
Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T
Tresguerres, Martin
De La Garza, Vanessa
Sun, Yazhi
Karimi, Zahra
Drury, Crawford
Jury, Christopher P
Hancock, Joshua R
Chen, Shaochen
Hadfield, Michael G
Wangpraseurt, Daniel
Microbial living materials promote coral larval settlement. Levy, Natalie Kundu, Samapti Freckelton, Marnie Dinasquet, Julie Flores, Isabel Galindo-Martínez, Claudia T Tresguerres, Martin De La Garza, Vanessa Sun, Yazhi Karimi, Zahra Drury, Crawford Jury, Christopher P Hancock, Joshua R Chen, Shaochen Hadfield, Michael G Wangpraseurt, Daniel The global decline of coral reefs calls for new strategies to rapidly restock coral populations and maintain ecosystem functions and services. Low recruitment success on degraded reefs hampers coral sexual propagation and leads to reduced genetic diversity and impaired reef resilience. Here, we introduce a Bacterial Reef Ink (Brink) to assist in coral larval settlement. Brink is a photopolymerized living material that can be rapidly applied to restoration substrates and has been formulated to cultivate two settlement-inducing bacterial strains ( and ). Settlement assays performed with broadcast spawning () and brooding () Indo-Pacific corals showed that Brink-coated substrates increased settlement >5-fold compared with uncoated control substrates. Brink can be applied as a flat coating or patterned using light-assisted 3D bioprinting, enabling diverse applications in reef restoration and engineering. This approach demonstrates the potential of functional living materials to enhance coral ecosystem engineering and support coral reef rehabilitation.
title Microbial living materials promote coral larval settlement.
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40933367/