Halobacteriovorax halts disease progression in endangered Caribbean corals.

ABSTRACT: Predation is a top-down regulator of ecosystem integrity and a key driver of community structure and evolution in plants and animals. Despite our awareness of these dynamics, our understanding of microbial top-down control by bacterial predators remains limited. Predatory Halobacteriovorax bacteria are common, low abundance members of many marine and estuarine microbiomes and are considered generalists with less specific prey ranges than most viruses, yet more selective targets than antibiotics. This "Goldilocks" prey range has huge potential to treat polymicrobial infections, particularly in complex microbiomes; however, few studies employing Halobacteriovorax as a tool to manipulate dysbiotic microbiomes have been pursued. We developed a single-pathogen disease mitigation model in the cr

SUBMITTER: Speare L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12747082 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature