Coral reefs host millions of bacteria, revealing Earth’s hidden biodiversity

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Coral reefs host millions of bacteria, revealing Earth's hidden biodiversity

A new estimate of microbial life living in Pacific reefs is similar to global counts, suggesting many more microbes call Earth home than thought.

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Marine probiotics: increasing coral resistance to bleaching through microbiome manipulation - The ISME Journal

Although the early coral reef-bleaching warning system (NOAA/USA) is established, there is no feasible treatment that can minimize temperature bleaching and/or disease impacts on corals in the field. Here, we present the first attempts to extrapolate the widespread and well-established use of...

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