CORAL DISEASES

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CORAL DISEASES http//ourworld.compuserve.com/hom
epages/mccarty_and_pters/c-intro.htm
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Bleaching loss of zooxanthellae due to some
stress to the colony
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White Plague
stress related necrosis
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White-band disease bleaching in branching corals
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Rapid wasting - the attack of the rabid parrot
fish
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Dark spot disease in Siderastrea siderea
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Black-band disease - black band is Phoromidium
corallyticum, a filimentous cyanobacterium death
in the coral tissue is caused by oxygen
depletion/hydrogen sulfide exposure.
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Yellow-blotch - caused unknown
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Skeletal Anomolies of Hard Coral
Coral hyperplasms accelerated growth patches on
coral surface
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ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READING http//ourworld.co
mpuserve.com/homepages/mccarty_and_pters/c-intro.h
tm Peters, E.C., and H.B. McCarty. 1996.
Carbonate crisis? Geotimes 41(4)20-23.