Applying coral breeding to reef restoration: best practices, knowledge gaps, and priority actions in a rapidly‐evolving field

AT Banaszak, KL Marhaver, MW Miller… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reversing coral reef decline requires reducing environmental threats while actively restoring
reef ecological structure and function. A promising restoration approach uses coral breeding …

Interspecific hybridisation provides a low-risk option for increasing genetic diversity of reef-building corals

AM Lamb, LM Peplow, AM Dungan… - Biology …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Interspecific hybridisation increases genetic diversity and has played a significant role in the
evolution of corals in the genus Acropora. In vitro fertilisation can be used to increase the …

Fertile Hybrids Could Aid Coral Adaptation

AM Lamb, LM Peplow, WY Chan, ZJ Crane… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fertile hybrids can enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience of species under stress by
increasing genetic diversity within populations, masking the effects of deleterious recessive …

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

R Calado, MC Leal, RXG Silva, M Borba, A Ferro… - 2025 - preprints.org
Over the last decades, bioprospecting of corals has revealed numerous bioactive
compounds with potential for biotechnological applications. However, this search involves …