Bacterial communities inhabiting the healthy tissues of two Caribbean reef corals: interspecific and spatial variation

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Strong relationship between coral bleaching and growth anomalies in massive Porites (2009, background): “…coral density (Bruno et al., 2007), or water quality conditions, such as elevated nutrients (Bruno et al., 2003; Voss & Richardson, 2006) and organic matter (Kline et al., 2006) that change microbial community composition towards more pathogenic taxa (Klaus et al., 2005; Pantos & Bythell, 2006).”
Are infectious diseases really killing corals? Alternative interpretations of the experimental and ecological data (2007, background): “Another confounding aspect of coral microbiology is the discovery that corals harbor microbial communities not just in their outer mucus layers, but in their tissues (Ducklow and Mitchell, 1979; Klaus et al., 2005; Ritchie and Smith, 1995; Rohwer et al., 2002).”
Bacterial assemblages differ between compartments within the coral holobiont (2011, background): “There is a wide agreement that to understand coral diseases, we must have a systematic understanding of the healthy coral microbiota (Klaus et al. 2005; Guppy and Bythell 2006; Ritchie 2006; Gil-Agudelo et al. 2007).”