Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

Raquel Peixoto^{1

2

3}, Christian R Voolstra^{2

4}, Lisa Y Stein^{1

5}, Philip Hugenholtz^{1

6}, Joana Falcao Salles^{1

7}, Shady A Amin^{1

8}, Max Häggblom^{9

10}, Ann Gregory^{1

11}, Thulani P Makhalanyane^{1

12}, Fengping Wang^{1

13}, Nadège Adoukè Agbodjato^{1

14}, Yinzhao Wang^{1

13}, Nianzhi Jiao^{15

16}, Jay T Lennon^{17

18

19}, Antonio Ventosa^{9

20}, Patrik M Bavoil^{9

21}, Virginia Miller^{17

18

22}, Jack A Gilbert^{17

23

24}

Affiliations

¹ International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), Arnhem, the Netherlands.
² International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), Tavernier, Florida, USA.
³ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
⁵ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁶ University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
⁷ University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
⁸ New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
⁹ Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
¹¹ University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
¹² Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
¹³ Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
¹⁴ Université d'Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Abomey Calavi, Benin.
¹⁵ Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) Program, Research Center for Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions, Fujian, China.
¹⁶ Xiamen University, Fujian, China.
¹⁷ American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁸ American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
²⁰ University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
²¹ University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
²² University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
²³ Applied Microbiology International (AMI), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
²⁴ University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

PMID: 39526991
PMCID: PMC11748535
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01416-24

Editorial

Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe

Raquel Peixoto et al. mSystems. 2025.

. 2025 Jan 21;10(1):e0141624.

doi: 10.1128/msystems.01416-24. Epub 2024 Nov 11.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), Arnhem, the Netherlands.
² International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), Tavernier, Florida, USA.
³ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
⁵ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁶ University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
⁷ University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
⁸ New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
⁹ Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
¹¹ University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
¹² Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
¹³ Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
¹⁴ Université d'Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Abomey Calavi, Benin.
¹⁵ Global Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) Program, Research Center for Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions, Fujian, China.
¹⁶ Xiamen University, Fujian, China.
¹⁷ American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁸ American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁹ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
²⁰ University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
²¹ University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
²² University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
²³ Applied Microbiology International (AMI), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
²⁴ University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

PMID: 39526991
PMCID: PMC11748535
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01416-24

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Conflict of interest statement

J.A.G. is a Scientific Advisory Board Member for Oath Inc. The other authors declare no competing interests.

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**Fig 1**
Corals and climate change. Examples of the same healthy (top panels), bleached (bottom left), and dead (bottom right) corals before (top panels) and after (bottom panels) being affected by heatwaves caused by climate change. Photos by Morgan Bennett-Smith.

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