Tropical coral reefs harbour a reservoir of enormous biodiversity that is increasingly threatened by direct human activities and indirect global climate shifts. Emerging coral …
Current and future climate-related drivers of risk for small islands during the 21st century include sea level rise (SLR), tropical and extratropical cyclones, increasing air and sea …
GS Aeby, B Ushijima, JE Campbell, S Jones… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
An outbreak of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), emerged on reefs off the coast of southeast Florida in 2014 and continues to spread throughout Florida's Reef Tract. SCTLD is …
Background Corals are capable of launching diverse immune defenses at the site of direct contact with pathogens, but the molecular mechanisms of this activity and the colony-wide …
A Lokmer, KM Wegner - The ISME journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Microbiota provide their hosts with a range of beneficial services, including defense from external pathogens. However, host-associated microbial communities themselves can act as …
Rising seawater temperature associated with global climate change is a significant threat to coral health and is linked to increasing coral disease and pathogen-related bleaching …
ML Groner, J Maynard, R Breyta… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Infectious marine diseases can decimate populations and are increasing among some taxa due to global change and our increasing reliance on marine environments. Marine diseases …
The Harveyi clade or core group of the Vibrio genus includes both pathogenic and non‐ pathogenic bacteria. Some of the species belonging to the clade, such as Vibrio harveyi …
B Lin, Z Wang, AP Malanoski… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Three notable members of the Harveyi clade, Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio alginolyticus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, are best known as marine pathogens of commercial and medical import …