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 ...
Olivia M Williamson +2 more
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Variable Species Responses to Experimental Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) Exposure [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was initially documented in Florida in 2014 and outbreaks with similar characteristics have since appeared in disparate areas throughout the northern Caribbean, causing significant declines in coral communities ...
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Stony coral tissue loss disease has spread widely in the Caribbean and causes substantial changes to coral community composition because of its broad host range and high fatality rate.
Graham Forrester
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3D Photogrammetry Reveals Dynamics of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) Lesion Progression Across a Thermal Stress Event [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first observed in the United States Virgin Islands in January 2019 on a reef at Flat Cay off the island of St. Thomas. A year after its emergence, the disease had spread to several reefs around St.
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Shifts in the microbiome and virome are associated with stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) [PDF]
ISME CommunicationsAbstract Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a rapidly spreading lethal coral disease, the etiology of which remains poorly understood. In this study, using deep metagenomic sequencing, we investigated microbial and viral community dynamics associated with SCTLD progression in the Caribbean stony coral Diploria labyrinthiformis.
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Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Results in Persistent Microbial‐Level Disturbances on Coral Reef Ecosystems [PDF]
Environmental Microbiology ReportsReef 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.
Stephanie Rosales, Lindsay Huebner
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Changing Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Dynamics Through Time in Montastraea cavernosa [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is affecting corals across the Western Atlantic and displays species-specific and regional differences in prevalence, incidence, degree of mortality, and lesion morphology.
Greta Aeby +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 During the last several decades, Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR) has been impacted by both global and local stressors that have devastated much of its living coral cover.
Katherine R. Eaton +4 more
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Progressive chronic tissue loss disease in Siderastrea siderea on Florida's coral reef. [PDF]
PLoS ONEStony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has devastated numerous species of corals across the Western Atlantic but one reef coral, Siderastrea siderea, displays unusual tissue loss lesions. We examined the dynamics of lesions in S.
Greta Smith Aeby +7 more
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Runaway coral-algal dysbiosis may be responsible for rapid coral tissue loss [PDF]
Scientific ReportsStony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) affects at least 22 Western Atlantic coral species and presents as focal or multifocal lesions, which swiftly expand across the colony, resulting in rapid tissue loss and mortality.
Ashley M. Rossin +19 more
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