ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2014
The chemical cue tetrabromopyrrole from a biofilm bacterium induces settlement of multiple Caribbean corals.
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- Bacterial regulation of coral larval metamorphosis and settlement in Pocillopora damicornis.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Cycloprodigiosin: A multispecies settlement cue for scleractinian coral larvae.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Genomic potential of crustose coralline algae-associated bacteria for the biosynthesis of novel antimicrobials.Microbial genomics · 2025Article
- Microbiome Dynamics in Early Life Stages of the Precious Mediterranean Red Coral Corallium rubrum.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Direct observation and quantitative characterization of chemotactic behaviors in Caribbean coral larvae exposed to organic and inorganic settlement cues.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Light and dark biofilm adaptation impacts larval settlement in diverse coral species.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- High diversity of crustose coralline algae microbiomes across species and islands, and implications for coral recruits.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Chemical signaling in biofilm-mediated biofouling.Nature chemical biology · 2024Review
- A transcriptome-wide analysis provides novel insights into how Metabacillus indicus promotes coral larvae metamorphosis and settlement.BMC genomics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Microbial biofilms induce larval settlement for some invertebrates, including corals; however, the chemical cues involved have rarely been identified. Here, we demonstrate the role of microbial biofilms in inducing larval settlement with the Caribbean coral Porites astreoides and report the first instance of a chemical cue isolated from a marine biofilm bacterium that induces complete settlement (attachment and metamorphosis) of Caribbean coral larvae. Larvae settled in response to natural biofilms, and the response was eliminated when biofilms were treated with antibiotics. A similar settlement response was elicited by monospecific biofilms of a single bacterial strain, Pseudoalteromonas sp. PS5, isolated from the surface biofilm of a crustose coralline alga. The activity of Pseudoalteromonas sp. PS5 was attributed to the production of a single compound, tetrabromopyrrole (TBP), which has been shown previously to induce metamorphosis without attachment in Pacific acroporid corals. In addition to inducing settlement of brooded larvae (P. astreoides), TBP also induced larval settlement for two broadcast-spawning species, Orbicella (formerly Montastraea) franksi and Acropora palmata, indicating that this compound may have widespread importance among Caribbean coral species.
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