This project is part of the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP), a partnership to help the Great Barrier Reef resist, adapt and recover from the impacts of climate change.
We aim to identify microbial taxa, genes or pathways involved in inducing or inhibiting coral larval settlement and metamorphosis for a diverse range of species, and to produce a broad-spectrum larval settlement cue for use in coral aquaculture to support reef restoration at scale.
- Project team: Laura Rix (CI), Inka Vanwonterghem, Paul O’Brien, Felicity Kuek
- Collaborators: Sara Bell (AIMS), Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab (AIMS), Lone Hoj (AIMS), Guillermo Diaz-Pulido (Griffith University), Andrew Negri (AIMS), Miguel Lurgi Rivera (Swansea University), Nicholas Shikuma (San Diego State University), Morgan Farrell (San Diego State University), Abigail Turnlund (University of Oldenburg)