Pseudoscillatoria coralii gen. nov., sp. nov., a cyanobacterium associated with coral black band disease (BBD)

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 91-96

  Rasoulouniriana, Diana ^a   Siboni, Nachshon ^a   Eitan, Ben Dov ^a,b   Esti, Kramarsky Winter ^c   Loya, Yossi ^c   Kushmaro, Ariel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black band disease; Marine cyanobacteria; Oscillatoriales; Pseudoscillatoria coralii; Stony corals

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORAL; CYANOBACTERIUM; ETIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORPHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PHYLOGENETICS; PIGMENT; RNA; SALINITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRICHOME;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CYANOBACTERIA; PHYLOGENY;

ASIA; EURASIA; GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA; CYANOBACTERIA; FAVIA; FAVIIDAE; OSCILLATORIALES; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 70450192669     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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