A comparative baseline of coral disease in three regions along the Saudi Arabian coast of the central Red Sea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Coral disease is a growing problem for coral reefs globally and diseases have been linked to thermal stress, excess nutrients, overfishing and other human impacts.
Greta Smith Aeby +5 more
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A coral disease outbreak highlights vulnerability of remote high-latitude lagoons to global and local stressors. [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary Outbreaks of coral disease are often associated with global and local stressors like changes in temperature and poor water quality. A severe coral disease outbreak was recorded in the primary reef-building taxa Montipora spp.
Page CE, Leggat W, Egan S, Ainsworth TD.
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Disease Diagnostics and Potential Coinfections by Vibrio coralliilyticus During an Ongoing Coral Disease Outbreak in Florida. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2020 A deadly coral disease outbreak has been devastating the Florida Reef Tract since 2014. This disease, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), affects at least 22 coral species causing the progressive destruction of tissue.
Ushijima B +11 more
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Baseline coral disease surveys within three marine parks in Sabah, Borneo [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Two of the most significant threats to coral reefs worldwide are bleaching and disease. However, there has been a scarcity of research on coral disease in South-East Asia, despite the high biodiversity and the strong dependence of local communities on ...
Jennifer Miller +3 more
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Removal of detritivore sea cucumbers from reefs increases coral disease. [PDF]
Nat CommunCoral reefs are in global decline with coral diseases playing a significant role. This is especially true for Acroporid corals that represent ~25% of all Pacific coral species and generate much of the topographic complexity supporting reef biodiversity ...
Clements CS +3 more
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Compositional homogeneity in the pathobiome of a new, slow-spreading coral disease. [PDF]
Microbiome, 2019 Coral reefs face unprecedented declines in diversity and cover, a development largely attributed to climate change-induced bleaching and subsequent disease outbreaks.
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Adding insult to injury: Ship groundings are associated with coral disease in a pristine reef. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 In 2013, the remote Tubbataha Reef UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the western Philippines, experienced two ship groundings within four months: the USS Guardian (USSG), a US military vessel, and the Min Ping Yu (MPY), an illegal Chinese fishing vessel ...
Raymundo LJ, Licuanan WY, Kerr AM.
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Advances in coral immunity ‘omics in response to disease outbreaks
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Coral disease has progressively become one of the most pressing issues affecting coral reef survival. In the last 50 years, several reefs throughout the Caribbean have been severely impacted by increased frequency and intensity of disease outbreaks ...
Nikki Traylor-Knowles +13 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), one of the most pervasive and virulent coral diseases on record, affects over 22 species of reef-building coral and is decimating reefs throughout the Caribbean. To understand how different coral species and their
Kelsey M. Beavers +15 more
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Predation scars may influence host susceptibility to pathogens: evaluating the role of corallivores as vectors of coral disease. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 Infectious diseases not regulated by host density, such as vector-borne diseases, have the potential to drive population declines and extinctions. Here we test the vector potential of the snail Drupella sp.
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