Tissue mortality by Caribbean ciliate infection and white band disease in three reef-building coral species

Caribbean ciliate infection (CCI) and white band disease (WBD) are diseases that affect a multitude of coral hosts and are associated with rapid rates of tissue losses, thus contributing to declining coral cover in Caribbean reefs. In this study we compared tissue mortality rates associated to CCI i...

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Main Authors: Verde, Alejandra, Croquer, Aldo, Bastidas, Ana Carolina
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107800