Susceptibility of Caribbean Brain Coral Recruits to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has devastated coral populations along Florida’s Coral Reef and beyond. Although widespread infection and mortality of adult colonies have been documented, no studies have yet investigated the susceptibility of recruits to this disease.
Olivia M. Williamson +3 more
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Dataset of coral reefs monitoring, Puerto Morelos, Mexico, 2019
Data in Brief, 2022 Noticeable within the Mexican Caribbean is the Arrecife de Puerto Morelos National Park (APMNP), a marine protected area established as an essential component for managing and protecting coral reefs.
Hansel Caballero‐Aragón +8 more
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Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Results in Persistent Microbial-Level Disturbances on Coral Reef Ecosystems. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol RepReef microbiomes before the arrival of stony coral tissue loss disease (vulnerable stage) during the outbreak (epidemic) and after (endemic). Microbial diversity, network metrics, and functional potential varied among apparently healthy corals and the surrounding water and sediments across the stages.
Rosales SM +4 more
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Environmental Advances, 2022 Although knowledge on the diseases affecting corals has been accumulating exponentially since the 2000s, even more effort is required to summarize and guide further investigation. Here, we used the Web of Science database to review 226 studies published,
Juliano Morais +2 more
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Genetic susceptibility, colony size, and water temperature drive white-pox disease on the coral Acropora palmata. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Outbreaks of coral diseases are one of the greatest threats to reef corals in the Caribbean, yet the mechanisms that lead to coral diseases are still largely unknown. Here we examined the spatial-temporal dynamics of white-pox disease on Acropora palmata
Erinn M Muller, Robert van Woesik
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Rapidly increasing macroalgal cover not related to herbivorous fishes on Mesoamerican reefs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Long-term phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominated reef systems are well documented in the Caribbean. Although the impact of coral diseases, climate change and other factors is acknowledged, major herbivore loss through disease and overfishing is ...
Adam Suchley +2 more
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Algae as reservoirs for coral pathogens. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Benthic algae are associated with coral death in the form of stress and disease. It's been proposed that they release exudates, which facilitate invasion of potentially pathogenic microbes at the coral-algal interface, resulting in coral disease. However,
Michael J Sweet +2 more
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Does Dark-Spot Syndrome Experimentally Transmit among Caribbean Corals? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Over the last half-century, coral diseases have contributed to the rapid decline of coral populations throughout the Caribbean region. Some coral diseases appear to be potentially infectious, yet little is known about their modes of transmission.
Carly J Randall +3 more
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Comparing bacterial community composition of healthy and dark spot-affected Siderastrea siderea in Florida and the Caribbean. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Coral disease is one of the major causes of reef degradation. Dark Spot Syndrome (DSS) was described in the early 1990's as brown or purple amorphous areas of tissue on a coral and has since become one of the most prevalent diseases reported on Caribbean
Christina A Kellogg +5 more
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Disease and immunity in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific zooxanthellate corals [PDF]
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2004 Since the mid-1990s, coral diseases have increased in number, species affected, and geographic extent. To date, 18 coral diseases, affecting at least 150 scleractinian, gorgonian, and hydrozoan zooxanthellate species, have been described from the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific.
KP Sutherland, JW Porter, C Torres
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