Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review of emergence, impacts, etiology, diagnostics, and intervention

E Papke, A Carreiro, C Dennison… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is destructive and poses a significant threat to
Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. Characterized by the acute loss of coral tissue, SCTLD …

Probiotics reshape the coral microbiome in situ without detectable off-target effects in the surrounding environment

N Delgadillo-Ordoñez, N Garcias-Bonet… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Beneficial microorganisms for corals (BMCs), or probiotics, can enhance coral resilience
against stressors in laboratory trials. However, the ability of probiotics to restructure the coral …

Similarities and differences between two deadly Caribbean coral diseases: white plague and stony coral tissue loss disease

A Cróquer, E Weil, CS Rogers - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
For several decades, white plagues (WPDs: WPD-I, II and III) and more recently, stony coral
tissue loss disease (SCTLD) have significantly impacted Caribbean corals. These diseases …

Stony coral tissue loss disease induces transcriptional signatures of in situ degradation of dysfunctional Symbiodiniaceae

KM Beavers, EW Van Buren, AM Rossin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), one of the most pervasive and virulent coral
diseases on record, affects over 22 species of reef-building coral and is decimating reefs …

Chemical and genomic characterization of a potential probiotic treatment for stony coral tissue loss disease

B Ushijima, SP Gunasekera, JL Meyer, J Tittl… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Considered one of the most devastating coral disease outbreaks in history, stony coral
tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is currently spreading throughout Florida's coral reefs and the …

Viral-like particles are associated with endosymbiont pathology in Florida corals affected by stony coral tissue loss disease

TM Work, TM Weatherby, JH Landsberg… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first documented in 2014 near the Port of
Miami, Florida, and has since spread north and south along Florida's Coral Reef, killing …

Variable species responses to experimental stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) exposure

SS Meiling, EM Muller, D Lasseigne… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was initially documented in Florida in 2014 and
outbreaks with similar characteristics have since appeared in disparate areas throughout the …

Tissue loss disease outbreak significantly alters the Southeast Florida stony coral assemblage

NK Hayes, CJ Walton, DS Gilliam - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) outbreak, first widely reported in 2014 in the
Southeast Florida Ecosystem Conservation Area (Coral ECA), has continued to impact stony …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity of the holopelagic Sargassum microbiome from the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt to coastal stranding locations

T Theirlynck, IRW Mendonça, AH Engelen, H Bolhuis… - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
The holopelagic brown macroalgae Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans form
essential habitats for attached and mobile fauna which contributes to a unique biodiversity in …

Stony coral tissue loss disease intervention with amoxicillin leads to a reversal of disease‐modulated gene expression pathways

MS Studivan, RJ Eckert, E Shilling… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) remains an unprecedented disease outbreak due
to its high mortality rate and rapid spread throughout Florida's Coral Reef and wider …