Microbes guide corals looking to find a home.

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College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW 2052, Australia.

Published: February 2024


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Coral reefs are facing unprecedented anthropogenic pressures impacting critical processes such as recruitment of juvenile corals. Through larval choice assays and co-occurrence network analyses, a recent study by Turnlund et al. identified microbial taxa within reef biofilms that positively correlate and therefore have potential key roles in inducing coral settlement.

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