Shifts in bacterial communities of two caribbean reef-building coral species affected by white plague disease

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 502-512

  Cárdenas, Anny ^a   Rodriguez R, Luis M ^b   Pizarro, Valeria ^c   Cadavid, Luis F ^a   Arévalo Ferro, Catalina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD JORGE TADEO LOZANO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

bacterial community; coral diseases; Diploria strigosa; pyrosequencing; Siderastrea siderea; white plague disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CORAL REEF; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COLOMBIA; CORAL REEF; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA; COLOMBIA; CORAL REEFS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIALES; DIPLORIA STRIGOSA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIALES; RHODOBACTERALES; SIDERASTREA SIDEREA; XANTHOMONADALES;

EID: 84857113448     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.123     Document Type: Article

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