Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience

RL Vega Thurber, D Silva, L Speare… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
As climate change drives health declines of tropical reef species, diseases are further
eroding ecosystem function and habitat resilience. Coral disease impacts many areas …

A decade of population genetics studies of scleractinian corals: A systematic review

V Alvarado-Cerón, AI Muñiz-Castillo… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coral reefs are the most diverse marine ecosystems. However, coral cover has decreased
worldwide due to natural disturbances, climate change, and local anthropogenic drivers. In …

The emergence and initial impact of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in the United States Virgin Islands

ME Brandt, RS Ennis, SS Meiling… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coral communities in the Caribbean face a new and deadly threat in the form of the highly
virulent multi-host stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). In late January of 2019, a …

Microbial bioindicators of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease identified in corals and overlying waters using a rapid field‐based sequencing approach

CC Becker, M Brandt, CA Miller… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) is a devastating disease. Since 2014, it
has spread along the entire Florida Reef Tract and into the greater Caribbean. It was first …

Variable species responses to experimental stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) exposure

SS Meiling, EM Muller, D Lasseigne… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was initially documented in Florida in 2014 and
outbreaks with similar characteristics have since appeared in disparate areas throughout the …

Disease resistance in coral is mediated by distinct adaptive and plastic gene expression profiles

NJ MacKnight, BA Dimos, KM Beavers, EM Muller… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Infectious diseases are an increasing threat to coral reefs, resulting in altered community
structure and hindering the functional contributions of disease-susceptible species. We …

Experimental transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease results in differential microbial responses within coral mucus and tissue

N Huntley, ME Brandt, CC Becker, CA Miller… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a widespread and deadly disease that affects
nearly half of Caribbean coral species. To understand the microbial community response to …

Reef sediments can act as a stony coral tissue loss disease vector

MS Studivan, AM Rossin, E Rubin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first observed in 2014 near Virginia Key in
Miami-Dade County, Florida. Field sampling, lab experiments, and modeling approaches …

Stony coral tissue loss disease intervention with amoxicillin leads to a reversal of disease‐modulated gene expression pathways

MS Studivan, RJ Eckert, E Shilling… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) remains an unprecedented disease outbreak due
to its high mortality rate and rapid spread throughout Florida's Coral Reef and wider …

Interactions between quorum sensing/quorum quenching and virulence genes may affect coral health by regulating symbiotic bacterial community

M Xu, Y Lyu, K Cheng, B Zhang, Z Cai, G Chen… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS) and quorum quenching (QQ) are two antagonistic processes that may
regulate the composition, function and structure of bacterial community. In coral holobiont …