Exploring Individual- to Population-Level Impacts of Disease on Coral Reef Sponges: Using Spatial Analysis to Assess the Fate, Dynamics, and Transmission of Aplysina Red Band Syndrome (ARBS)

BACKGROUND: Marine diseases are of increasing concern for coral reef ecosystems, but often their causes, dynamics and impacts are unknown. The current study investigated the epidemiology of Aplysina Red Band Syndrome (ARBS), a disease affecting the Caribbean sponge Aplysina cauliformis, at both the...

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Autores principales: Easson, Cole G., Slattery, Marc, Momm, Henrique G., Olson, Julie B., Thacker, Robert W., Gochfeld, Deborah J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079976

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