TY - JOUR
T1 - First frozen repository for the Great Barrier Reef coral created
AU - Hagedorn, Mary
AU - van Oppen, Madeleine J H
AU - Carter, Virginia
AU - Henley, Mike
AU - Abrego, David
AU - Puill-Stephan, Eneour
AU - Negri, Andrew
AU - Heyward, Andrew
AU - Macfarlane, Douglas Robert
AU - Spindler, Rebecca Elizabeth
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - To build new tools for the continued protection and propagation of coral from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), an international group of coral and cryopreservation scientists known as the Reef Recovery Initiative joined forces during the November 2011 mass-spawning event. The outcome was the creation of the first frozen bank for Australian coral from two important GBR reef-building species, Acropora tenuis and Acropora millepora. Approximately 190 frozen samples each with billions of cells were placed into long-term storage. Sperm cells were successfully cryopreserved, and after thawing, samples were used to fertilize eggs, resulting in functioning larvae. Additionally, developing larvae were dissociated, and these pluripotent cells were cryopreserved and viable after thawing. Now, we are in a unique position to move our work from the laboratory to the reefs to develop collaborative, practical conservation management tools to help secure Australia?s coral biodiversity.
AB - To build new tools for the continued protection and propagation of coral from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), an international group of coral and cryopreservation scientists known as the Reef Recovery Initiative joined forces during the November 2011 mass-spawning event. The outcome was the creation of the first frozen bank for Australian coral from two important GBR reef-building species, Acropora tenuis and Acropora millepora. Approximately 190 frozen samples each with billions of cells were placed into long-term storage. Sperm cells were successfully cryopreserved, and after thawing, samples were used to fertilize eggs, resulting in functioning larvae. Additionally, developing larvae were dissociated, and these pluripotent cells were cryopreserved and viable after thawing. Now, we are in a unique position to move our work from the laboratory to the reefs to develop collaborative, practical conservation management tools to help secure Australia?s coral biodiversity.
U2 - 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2012.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2012.05.008
M3 - Letter
VL - 65
SP - 157
EP - 158
JO - Cryobiology
JF - Cryobiology
SN - 0011-2240
IS - 2
ER -