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Manipulation of corals microbiome and BMCs (“Beneficial Microorganisms for Corals”) for reefs recovering and conservation

By: Dr. Gustavo Duarte (Projeto de Pós-Doutorado) Phillipe Rosado Magalhães (Tese de Doutorado) Erika Peçanha Santoro (Tese de Doutorado) Helena Dias Müller Villela (Tese de Doutorado) e Camila Messias (Monografia)

An innovating study that aims to protect and recover worldwide coral reefs threatened by whitening and others diseases. The innovating approach of this research in progress, has been extremely sustainable and viable, establishes the beneficial manipulation of marine natural microbiomes, that are already there and are native from this ecossystem, to protect these coral environment.