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“…Such mortality events were not reported previously. Our results also are in accordance with the findings of studies on microorganisms as a factor related to these events, because biomass loss is a sign of physiological stress that makes colonies more susceptible to opportunistic, residential, and/or pathogenic microorganisms (11,19,21), which has been observed in corals (43). But under the observed trend of increasing extreme temperature events, increased contributions of lethal temperature and increased virulence of microorganisms to the events should be expected in the near future.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Such mortality events were not reported previously. Our results also are in accordance with the findings of studies on microorganisms as a factor related to these events, because biomass loss is a sign of physiological stress that makes colonies more susceptible to opportunistic, residential, and/or pathogenic microorganisms (11,19,21), which has been observed in corals (43). But under the observed trend of increasing extreme temperature events, increased contributions of lethal temperature and increased virulence of microorganisms to the events should be expected in the near future.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 91%
“…These and other studies have suggested that WPD represents a group of different diseases with similar signs in different species (Dustan, 1977;Rosenberg et al, 2007;Sunagawa et al, 2009). Furthermore, it has been suggested that some coral diseases have a polymicrobial origin involving an imbalance in the structure and diversity of microorganism communities symbiotically associated with their host (Harvell et al, 2007;Lesser et al, 2007). An example is the black band disease, which is associated to a bacterial consortium of cyanobacteria and other less abundant groups of sulfur-oxidizing and sulfur-reducing bacteria (Sekar et al, 2006;Barneah et al, 2007;Sato et al, 2010).…”
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confidence: 83%
“…In the last three decades, local and global deterioration of environmental conditions have dramatically compromised the health of corals, which consequently affected the entire coral reef ecosystem. (Harvell et al, 1999(Harvell et al, , 2007Wilkinson, 1999;Green and Bruckner, 2000;Gardner et al, 2003;Pandolfi et al, 2003;Lesser et al, 2007). Recent reports indicate that 58-70% of coral reefs worldwide are threatened by human activities, while more than 30% of the biota associated with Caribbean coral reefs have disappeared within the last 30 years Weil et al, 2006;Jackson, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Instead, we observed an increase in diversity in samples from diseased tissues (Table 2), whereas there was no overwhelming dominance by a single bacterial species, which appears to be an unexpected result for a primary infection. It has been argued that opposed to the idea of a primary infection, coral diseases may also result from unchecked growth of otherwise harmless bacteria in compromised hosts and/or due to changes in the environment, for example, increased temperatures (Harvell et al, 1999(Harvell et al, , 2007Lesser et al, 2007). The identification of bacteria in healthy corals that were similar to known pathogens or bacteria that were previously isolated from diseased, stressed or injured marine invertebrates may point toward a role of latent, usually non-pathogenic commensals.…”
Section: Comparison Of Healthy and Diseased Coral Tissue Samplesmentioning
confidence: 99%