Culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses reveal no prokaryotic community shifts or recovery of Serratia marcescens in Acropora palmata with white pox disease

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 457-467

  Lesser, Michael P ^a   Jarett, Jessica K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora palmata; Corals; Disease; Pyrosequencing; Serratia marcescens; Syndrome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ETIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SEAWATER; SEWAGE;

BAHAMAS;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA PALMATA; ACROPORIDAE; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

RNA 16S;

ACROPORA PALMATA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BAHAMAS; CORAL REEF; CORALS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PYROSEQUENCING; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYNDROME;

ACROPORA PALMATA; CORALS; DISEASE; PYROSEQUENCING; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BAHAMAS; CORAL REEFS; CULTURE MEDIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 84901697380     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12311     Document Type: Article

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