To Understand Coral Disease, Look at Coral Cells

EcoHealth

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 610-618

  Work, Thierry ^a   Meteyer, Carol ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

coral; diagnostics; disease; epizootiology; pathology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASES; ANTHOZOA; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84930817389     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-014-0931-1     Document Type: Review

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