Despite widespread acceptance that competition between scleractinian corals and benthic
algae is important to the structure of coral reef communities, there is little direct experimental …

Reports of new and emerging coral diseases have proliferated in recent years. Such coral
diseases are often cited as contributing to coral reef decline. Many of these diseases …

Coral reefs are the most biodiverse of all marine ecosystems; however, very little is known
about prokaryotic diversity in these systems. To address this issue, we sequenced over 1000 …

In recent decades, the cover of fleshy macroalgae has increased and coral cover has
decreased on most Caribbean reefs. Coral mortality precipitated this transition, and the …

Staghorn corals (genus Acropora) are the most obvious and important corals on coral reefs
throughout the world, providing much of the beauty and variety seen on the reefs. This …

Since the mid-1990s, coral diseases have increased in number, species affected, and
geographic extent. To date, 18 coral diseases, affecting at least 150 scleractinian …

Bleaching and mortality of zooxanthellate corals during the 1997–98 El Niño–Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) event are documented for eastern equatorial Pacific localities in Panama …

Endozoicomonas bacteria were found highly associated with the coral Stylophora pistillata,
and these bacteria are also ubiquitously associated with diverse corals worldwide. Novel …

Coral disease is one of the most recent in a series of threats that is challenging the
resilience of coral reef communities and is of particular concern because it may interact with …

Interactions among microorganisms found in coral mucus can be either symbiotic or
competitive. It has been hypothesized that microbial communities found on the surface of …