The Relationship Between Gorgonian Coral (Cnidaria: Gorgonacea) Diseases and African Dust Storms

By J. R. Weir-Brush, V. Garrison, Garriett W Smith, E. Shinn. 2004

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African and Asian Dust: From Desert Soils to Coral Reefs (2003, background): “The fungus known to cause sea fan disease in the tropical western Atlantic (Aspergillus sydowii; Smith et al. 1996) was isolated in its active, pathogenic form from air samples taken during dust events in the Virgin Islands in 1997 (Weir et al. 2000).”
Disease and immunity in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific zooxanthellate corals (2004, background): “Whereas only 53 coral spe- cies are found in Discovery Bay, Jamaica (Wells 1973), 362 coral species are found in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea (Werner & Allen 1998) and 350 coral species are found in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Veron 1985).”
Atmosphere: A Source of Pathogenic or Beneficial Microbes? (2012, methodology): “Different analytical approaches have been applied to answer different questions, as the focus of the previous investigations varied from allergens [38–40], to coral pathogens [41] and the phylogenetic characterization of the dust-associated microbial community [20,25,26,42–44].”