ReviewPLoS pathogens2011
The urgent need for robust coral disease diagnostics.
Review in PLoS pathogens, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 153 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating the effect of amoxicillin treatment on the microbiome ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
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- Tank-based bacterial profiling identifies basin-wide white band disease pathogen candidate and no bacterial associations with coral disease resistance.ISME communications · 2025Article
- The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024Review
- A nuclease domain fused to the Snf2 helicase confers antiphage defence in coral-associated Halomonas meridiana.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Article
- Building living systematic reviews and reporting standards for comparative microscopic analysis of white diseases in hard corals.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Widespread occurrence and diverse origins of polintoviruses influence lineage-specific genome dynamics in stony corals.Virus evolution · 2024Article
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- The coral microbiome: towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral-microbiota interactions.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2023Article
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- Strategies for managing marine disease.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2022Article
- Best practices for generating and analyzing 16S rRNA amplicon data to track coral microbiome dynamics.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Microbial dysbiosis reflects disease resistance in diverse coral species.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Microscale tracking of coral-vibrio interactions.ISME communications · 2021Article
- Assessing the effectiveness of two intervention methods for stony coral tissue loss disease on Montastraea cavernosa.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Mussismilia braziliensis White Plague Disease Is Characterized by an Affected Coral Immune System and Dysbiosis.Microbial ecology · 2021Article
- Ecological Factors Mediate Immunity and Parasitic Co-Infection in Sea Fan Octocorals.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Article
- Compositional homogeneity in the pathobiome of a new, slow-spreading coral disease.Microbiome · 2019Article
- Using NanoSIMS coupled with microfluidics to visualize the early stages of coral infection by Vibrio coralliilyticus.BMC microbiology · 2018Article
- Intraspecific differences in molecular stress responses and coral pathobiome contribute to mortality under bacterial challenge in Acropora millepora.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Coral disease has emerged over recent decades as a significant threat to coral reef ecosystems, with declines in coral cover and diversity of Caribbean reefs providing an example of the potential impacts of disease at regional scales. If similar trends are to be mitigated or avoided on reefs worldwide, a deeper understanding of the factors underlying the origin and spread of coral diseases and the steps that can be taken to prevent, control, or reduce their impacts is required. In recent years, an increased focus on coral microbiology and the application of classic culture techniques and emerging molecular technologies has revealed several coral pathogens that could serve as targets for novel coral disease diagnostic tools. The ability to detect and quantify microbial agents identified as indicators of coral disease will aid in the elucidation of disease causation and facilitate coral disease detection and diagnosis, pathogen monitoring in individuals and ecosystems, and identification of pathogen sources, vectors, and reservoirs. This information will advance the field of coral disease research and contribute knowledge necessary for effective coral reef management. This paper establishes the need for sensitive and specific molecular-based coral pathogen detection, outlines the emerging technologies that could serve as the basis of a new generation of coral disease diagnostic assays, and addresses the unique challenges inherent to the application of these techniques to environmentally derived coral samples.
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