Florida's mystery coral-killer identified

Laurie L. Richardson, Walter M. Goldberg, Kevin G. Kuta, Richard B. Aronson (), Garriet W. Smith, Kim B. Ritchie, John C. Halas, Joshua S. Feingold and Steven L. Miller
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Laurie L. Richardson: Florida International University
Walter M. Goldberg: Florida International University
Kevin G. Kuta: Florida International University
Richard B. Aronson: Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Garriet W. Smith: University of South Carolina
Kim B. Ritchie: University of North Carolina
John C. Halas: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Joshua S. Feingold: NOVA Southeastern University Oceanographic Center
Steven L. Miller: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, National Undersea Research Center

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6676, 557-558

Abstract: Abstract An unusual coral disease appeared on the Florida Reef Tract in June 1995. It was distinct in its microbiology, its pattern of tissue degradation, the species susceptible to it, and its regional distribution. Symptoms included a sharp line between healthy and diseased tissue, as occurs with other coral diseases, but the pathogen responsible for the new outbreak seemed more virulent, affected a wider variety of species, and destroyed tissue much more rapidly than these other ‘line’ or ‘band’ diseases. We have identified the pathogen responsible for this new disease as a new species of Sphingomonas.

Date: 1998
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