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CORAL DISEASES ourworldpuserve/homepages/mccarty_and_pters/c-intro.htm

CORAL DISEASES http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_pters/c-intro.htm. Bleaching = loss of zooxanthellae due to some stress to the colony. White Plague. “stress related necrosis”. White-band disease =bleaching in branching corals.

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CORAL DISEASES ourworldpuserve/homepages/mccarty_and_pters/c-intro.htm

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  1. CORAL DISEASES http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_pters/c-intro.htm

  2. Bleaching = loss of zooxanthellae due to some stress to the colony

  3. White Plague “stress related necrosis”

  4. White-band disease =bleaching in branching corals

  5. Rapid wasting - the attack of the rabid parrot fish

  6. Dark spot disease in Siderastrea siderea

  7. Black-band disease - black band is Phoromidium corallyticum, a filimentous cyanobacterium; death in the coral tissue is caused by oxygen depletion/hydrogen sulfide exposure.

  8. Yellow-blotch - caused unknown

  9. Skeletal Anomolies of Hard Coral Coral hyperplasms = accelerated growth patches on coral surface

  10. ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READING http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_pters/c-intro.htm Peters, E.C., and H.B. McCarty. 1996. Carbonate crisis? Geotimes 41(4):20-23.

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