Stanley C.K. Lau

TL;DR: This review provides a brief account of existing knowledge of marine biofilms that are relevant to settlement mediation, biotechnological application ofBiofilms with respect to developing non-toxic antifouling technologies and improving the operation of aquaculture facilities, and challenges and future directions for advancing the understanding of settlement-mediating functions of biofilm.

TL;DR: Investigation of microbial communities in the water column overlying the Atlantis II Deep and Discovery Deep in the Red Sea indicates that the microbial communities sampled in this study are different from those identified in water column in other parts of the world.

TL;DR: The results implied that the community composition and cell density of bacteria in biofilms, which can vary with local environmental conditions, may allow larvae of the 2 barnacles and H. elegans, respectively, to distinguish between habitats with different environmental conditions.

TL;DR: It was hypothesized that changes in the bacterial community profile in the biofilm affect the attractiveness of theBiofilm to barnacle larvae and, thus, may determine the behavior (accepting or rejecting a surface) of settling larvae.

TL;DR: Bacterial isolates obtained from a marine biofilm and investigated by laboratory bioassays indicated that larval settlement of H. elegans could be induced by bacteria in a wide range of taxa.