Immune defenses of healthy, bleached and diseased Montastraea faveolata during a natural bleaching event

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 67-78

  Mydlarz, Laura D ^a   Couch, Courtney S ^b   Weil, Ernesto ^c   Smith, Garriet ^d   Harvell, C Drew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Coral bleaching; Montastraea faveolata; Peroxidase; Prophenoloxidase; Yellow band disease

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL BLEACHING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENET; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOASSAY; MORTALITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEAT; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PUERTO RICO; SEA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; HOT TEMPERATURE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PUERTO RICO; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 70450177577     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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