Disease and immunity in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific zooxanthellate corals

By K. Sutherland, J. Porter, Cecilia Torres. 2004

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Ecology, Immunology

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In Biotechnology

1. K. Ritchie
2. Michael Lesser
3. C. Harvell
4. K. Kim
5. J. Ward
6. J. Porter
7. J. Bythell
8. E. Weil

In Ecology

1. Michael Lesser
2. B. Willis
3. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
4. E. Weil
5. J. Bythell
6. K. Ritchie
7. J. Porter
8. Peter J. Mumby

In Immunology

1. K. Ritchie
2. J. Bythell
3. E. Weil
4. B. Willis
5. B. Brown
6. A. Cróquer
7. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
8. C. Page

Citations in the corpus

• Characterization of Roseofilum reptotaenium (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) gen. et sp. nov. isolated from Caribbean black band disease (2012, background): “The only other named taxon was Pseudoscillatoria coralii which was isolated from BBD on corals of the Red Sea (Rasoulouniriana et al. 2009).”
• Temporal variability and impact of coral diseases and bleaching in La Parguera, Puerto Rico from 2003–2007 (2009, background): “Over 22 local scleractinian species seem to be susceptible to this disease ( Table 2 ) compared to over 40 coral species that have been observed with WPD signs Caribbean-wide (Weil 2004; Sutherland et al. 2004).”
• Perspectives on mucus secretion in reef corals (2005, background): “In this context mucus may function both as a protective physicochemical barrier (Peters 1997, Santavy & Peters 1997, Hayes & Goreau 1998, Sutherland et al. 2004) and as a growth medium for bacteria, including potential pathogens (Ducklow & Mitchell 1979b, Rublee et al. 1980, Toren et al. 1998,…”
• Bacterial communities closely associated with coral tissues vary under experimental and natural reef conditions and thermal stress (2009, background): “Coral diseases are now widely reported on reefs worldwide and are increasing in incidence and virulence, contributing to worldwide reef degradation (Harvell et al. 2002, Sutherland et al. 2004).”
• Thermodependent bacterial pathogens and mass mortalities in temperate benthic communities: a new case of emerging disease linked to climate change (2007, background): “At the host level, it is known that scleractinian and gorgonian corals produce secondary metabolites with antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities that may be functional in disease resistance (Kim et al., 2000; Sutherland et al., 2004; Reddy et al., 2005).”
• Regulation of microbial populations by coral surface mucus and mucus-associated bacteria (2006, background): “…suggested sources of coral decline include increased sea surface temperatures, coastal degradation, pollution, diseases, ecosystem imbalance caused by anthropogenic influences, and the synergistic effect of multiple stressors (Harvell et al. 2002, Rosenberg & Ben-Haim 2002, Sutherland et al. 2004).”
• Disease and cell death in white syndrome of Acroporid corals on the Great Barrier Reef (2007, background): “Given the recent increases in environmental stress and links between disease and stress related coral bleaching, there is the potential for disease resistance in corals to be compromised (Bythell et al. 2004; Sutherland et al. 2004; Harvell et al. 2002).”
• Biodiversity of Vibrios (2004, background): “, the paling or the loss of color due to the disruption of symbiosis between the coral host and symbiotic Zooxanthellae, is one of the most serious diseases affecting corals worldwide (332, 370), although it is sometimes reversible in 3 to 6 months (48, 83, 308, 322, 323, 370).”
• Algal contact as a trigger for coral disease (2004, background): “More recently, new diseases have inflicted severe losses in a majority of coral species (Sutherland et al. 2004).”
• Temperature affects coral disease resistance and pathogen growth (2007, background): “However, tests of the temperature hypothesis are rare (Israely et al. 2001, Cervino et al. 2004) in part due to the intractability of many coral disease systems in which pathogens are not yet identified (Sutherland et al. 2004).”
• Comprehensive characterization of skeletal tissue growth anomalies of the finger coral Porites compressa (2006, neutral): “They have since been documented in more than 40 species of scleractinians, 5 species of gorgonians, and 1 hydrozoan in both the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific (reviewed by Sutherland et al. 2004 ).”
• Scuba diving damage and intensity of tourist activities increases coral disease prevalence (2014, background): “The biogeochemical microenvironment beneath BBD microbial mats, which represent complex and diverse polymicrobial consortia (Sutherland et al., 2004; Kaczmarsky, 2006; Sato et al., 2009), is characterized by anoxia, high sulfide concentrations and low pH, conditions that are lethal to underlying…”
• Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions (2004, background): “Within the last three decades, coral colonies have become hosts to various microbes and have demonstrated limited capacity to either resist microbial colonization and invasion or defend against tissue infection and premature death (Harvell et al. 1999; Sutherland et al. 2004).”