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Machine learning reveals distinct gene expression signatures across tissue states in stony coral tissue loss disease [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has rapidly degraded Caribbean reefs, compounding climate-related stressors and threatening ecosystem stability.
Kelsey M. Beavers, Daniela Gutierrez-Andrade, Emily W. Van Buren, Madison A. Emery, Marilyn E. Brandt, Amy Apprill, Laura D. Mydlarz   +6 more
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Fine Scale Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreak Within the Lower Florida Keys

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
One of the latest threats to Florida’s Coral Reef is the stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) outbreak which affects all but a few Caribbean scleractinian species and has spread throughout the Caribbean since 2014. Without a known pathogen, ecological
Sara D. Williams, Cory S. Walter, Erinn M. Muller   +2 more
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3D Photogrammetry Reveals Dynamics of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) Lesion Progression Across a Thermal Stress Event

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.
Sonora Meiling, Erinn M. Muller, Tyler B. Smith, Marilyn E. Brandt   +3 more
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Antibiotic Treatment Ameliorates the Impact of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) on Coral Communities

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 E. Forrester, Laura Arton, Argel Horton, Katie Nickles, Linda M. Forrester   +4 more
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Gene Expression Response to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Transmission in M. cavernosa and O. faveolata From Florida

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Since 2014, corals within Florida’s Coral Reef have been dying at an unprecedented rate due to stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). Here we describe the transcriptomic outcomes of three different SCTLD transmission experiments performed at the ...
Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Michael T. Connelly, Benjamin D. Young, Katherine Eaton, Erinn M. Muller, Valerie J. Paul, Blake Ushijima, Allyson DeMerlis, Allyson DeMerlis, Melissa K. Drown, Ashley Goncalves, Ashley Goncalves, Nicholas Kron, Grace A. Snyder, Cecily Martin, Kevin Rodriguez   +15 more
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Evaluating the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease in the Bay Islands, Honduras

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Scleractinian corals, considered key reef ecosystem engineers, have suffered irreparable damage over the last decades, with causes widely attributed directly and indirectly to increased human pressure on coral communities. Stony coral tissue loss disease
Mar Truc, Antonella Rivera, Gabriela M. Ochoa, Damaris Dueñas, Zara Guifarro, Gisselle Brady, Zara Zúniga, Braulio Gutiérrez, Caitlin Chock, Laura Zaldivar   +9 more
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Runaway coral-algal dysbiosis may be responsible for rapid coral tissue loss [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Stony 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, Kelsey M. Beavers, Carly E. Karrick, Jeanne Bloomberg, Sonora Meiling, Gaby E. Carpenter, Benjamin H. Farmer, Brittney Green, Emily Van Buren, Alex Veglia, Amy Apprill, Marilyn Brandt, Adrienne M. S. Correa, Ian C. Enochs, Stephen R. Midway, Erinn M. Muller, Laura Mydlarz, Tyler B. Smith, Michael S. Studivan, Daniel M. Holstein   +19 more
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Microbial Community Shifts Associated With the Ongoing Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreak on the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
As many as 22 of the 45 coral species on the Florida Reef Tract are currently affected by stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). The ongoing disease outbreak was first observed in 2014 in Southeast Florida near Miami and as of early 2019 has been ...
Julie L. Meyer, Jessy Castellanos-Gell, Greta S. Aeby, Claudia C. Häse, Blake Ushijima, Blake Ushijima, Valerie J. Paul   +6 more
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Impacts of a Regional, Multi-Year, Multi-Species Coral Disease Outbreak in Southeast Florida

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
Globally coral reefs have been declining at alarming rates as a result of anthropogenic stressors, leading to increased frequency and severity of widespread bleaching and disease events. These events are often associated with increased water temperatures
Charles J. Walton, Nicole K. Hayes, David S. Gilliam   +2 more
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Mapping global coral vulnerability to stony coral tissue loss disease: implications for biosecurity and conservation

Frontiers in Marine Science
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has devastated Caribbean coral reefs since 2014, but its potential for global impact remains uncertain. We developed predictive models to assess the worldwide vulnerability of coral reefs to SCTLD under different ...
Kevin D. Lafferty, Giovanni Strona
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