Erratum: Identification of candidate coral pathogens on white band disease-infected staghorn coral (PLoS ONE (2014) 10:8 (e0134416) 10.1371/journal.pone.0134416);Identification of candidate coral pathogens on white band disease-infected staghorn coral

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Gignoux Wolfsohn, Sarah A ^a   Vollmer, Steven V ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA CERVICORNIS; ACROPORA PALMATE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVOBACTERIALES; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OPERATIONAL TAXONOMIC UNIT; RICKETTSIA; TAXONOMY; VIBRIO; WHITE BAND DISEASE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; MICROBIOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; DNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VIBRIO;

EID: 84942288109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142760     Document Type: Erratum

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