Living Coral Displays, Research Laboratories, and Biobanks as Important Reservoirs of Chemodiversity with Potential for Biodiscovery

Marine Drugs, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 23(2), P. 89 - 89

Published: Feb. 19, 2025

Over the last decades, bioprospecting of tropical corals has revealed numerous bioactive compounds with potential for biotechnological applications. However, this search involves sampling in natural reefs, and is currently hampered by multiple ethical technological constraints. Living coral displays, research laboratories, biobanks offer an opportunity to continue unravel chemodiversity, acting as "Noah's Arks" that may support molecules interest. This issue even more relevant if one considers reefs face unprecedent threats irreversible losses impair biodiscovery new products, processes, services. displays provide controlled environments studying producing both known metabolites under varied conditions, they are not prone common bottlenecks associated such loss source replicability. Research laboratories focus on a particular species or compound using were cultured ex situ, although differ from wild conspecifics metabolite production quantitative qualitative terms. Biobanks collect preserve specimens, tissues, cells, and/or information (e.g., genes, microorganisms), which offers plethora data study compounds' mode action without having cope issues related access, standardization, regulatory compliance. Bioprospecting these settings faces several challenges opportunities. On hand, it difficult ensure complexity highly biodiverse ecosystems shape chemodiversity corals. other possible maximize biomass fine tune synthesis interest environments. Collaborative efforts needed overcome barriers foster opportunities fully harness before in-depth knowledge pool irreversibly lost due reefs' degradation.

Language: Английский

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Bathymetry-guided multi-source remote sensing image domain adaptive coral reef benthic habitat classification

GIScience & Remote Sensing, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 62(1)

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Vulnerability of Brazilian Sharks to Climate Change: An Integrated Risk Assessment

Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 35(3)

Published: March 1, 2025

ABSTRACT Sharks are important species that occupy different niches and trophic levels due to their biological behavioural variability. It makes them a key element for conservation measures in marine environments. Among several stressors, climate changes put pressure on ways (direct indirect) intensities. Understanding how may affect shark is essential evaluate reduce the impact populations help adapt future climatic scenario. The aim was identify of vulnerability Northern Northeastern Brazil sharks change based semiquantitative method ecological risk assessment. Temperature UV light were, respectively, most concerning direct indirect effects sharks. In general, assessed have moderate chances surviving caused by change. Carcharhinus porosus , Mustelus higmani Isogomphodon oxyrhyncus were vulnerable species. Coastal estuarine had high rates exposure indexes inshore generally has habitat specificity latitudinal limitation, which worsens its ability new Both parameters be crucial factor preserving coastal populations. Continental shelf habitats commonly affected other human such as fishing, waste contamination destruction tidal vegetation. this way, region‐specific can bycatch increase reproductive efficiency, increasing likelihood There still little knowledge about synergistic effect between However, it necessary take preserve environments, so biota these areas show favourable conditions survival.

Language: Английский

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Restoration innovation: Fusing microbial memories to engineer coral resilience

One Earth, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8(3), P. 101193 - 101193

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Protecting existing coral reefs must be our priority

Nature Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 8, 2025

Language: Английский

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