Newly discovered probiotic could protect Caribbean corals threatened by deadly, devastating disease CommsBio
, provides an alternative to the use of the broad-spectrum antibiotic amoxicillin, which has so far been the only proven treatment for the disease, but which runs the risk of promotingSCTLD afflicts at least two dozen species of so-called hard corals, which provide essential habitat for innumerable fishes andof economic and intrinsic value while also helping to defend coastlines from storm damage.
The remaining live tissue on this great star coral colony in Florida is being destroyed by stony coral tissue loss disease . The bright white margin surrounding the dark brown, living coral tissue is where the coral is bleaching and dying due to the disease. Credit: Kelly Pitts The team then conducted chemical and genetic analyses to discover the compounds behind McH1-7's antibiotic properties and the genes behind those compounds' production. Finally, the researchers tested McH1-7 with live pieces of great star coral. These lab trials provided the final bit of decisive proof: McH1-7 stopped or slowed the progression of the disease in 68.
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