The marine fireworm Hermodice carunculata is a winter reservoir and spring-summer vector for the coral-bleaching pathogen Vibrio shiloi

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 250-255

  Sussman, Meir ^a   Loya, Yossi ^a   Fine, Maoz ^a   Rosenberg, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; POLYCHAETA; TEMPERATURE; VIBRIO;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HERMODICE; HERMODICE CARUNCULATA; INVERTEBRATA; OCULINA; OCULINA PATAGONICA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO SHILONII;

EID: 0037383612     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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