Disease and nutrient enrichment as potential stressors on the Caribbean sponge aplysina cauliformis and its bacterial symbionts

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 456, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-111

  Gochfeld, D J ^a,b   Easson, C G ^b   Freeman, C J ^c   Thacker, R W ^c   Olson, J B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nutrient enrichment; Sponge disease; Stressors; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CORAL REEF; CYANOBACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; SPONGE; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANTHOZOA; APLYSINA; APLYSINA CAULIFORMIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84862168517     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09716     Document Type: Article

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