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Ciliate and bacterial communities associated with White Syndrome and Brown Band Disease in reef-building corals.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Aug 2012
Sweet Michael, Bythell John
Abstract excerpt
White Syndrome (WS) and Brown Band Disease (BrB) are important causes of reef coral mortality for which causal agents have not been definitively identified. Here we use culture-independent molecular techniques (DGGE and clone libraries) to characterize ciliate and bacterial communities in these diseases. Bacterial (16S rRNA gene) and ciliate (18S rRNA gene) communities were highly similar between the two...
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