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Partitioning of bacterial communities between seawater and healthy, black band diseased, and dead coral surfaces.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 May 2002
Frias-Lopez Jorge, Zerkle Aubrey L, Bonheyo George T, Fouke Bruce W
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Distinct partitioning has been observed in the composition and diversity of bacterial communities inhabiting the surface and overlying seawater of three coral species infected with black band disease (BBD) on the southern Caribbean island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. PCR amplification and sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes (rDNA) with universally conserved primers have identified over 524 unique...
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