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Pink-line syndrome

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Title Pink-line syndrome
 
Creator Ravindran J.
Raghukumar, C.
Manikandan, B.
 
Subject Aquatic communities::Habitat community studies
Microbiology::General
Aquatic communities::Coral reef
 
Description Pink-line syndrome (PLS) was first observed in 1996 affecting the scleractinian coral Porites lutea at Kavaratti of the Lakshadweep islands in the Arabian Sea. The ability of the two fungi isolates and P. valderianum to cause PLS was tested by inoculating healthy coral polyps with pure cultures of the P. valderianum and fungi isolated from the diseased corals. The PLS pathogen P. valderianum was found as a dense cyanobacterial mat over the infected colonies with a hyaline nonsporulating fungus and the dark melanized Curvularia lunata fungus was frequently co-isolated from the PLS-affected tissue. The pathogenesis observed in Porites spp. affected by PLS with histological evaluations, particularly atrophy of the surface body wall epidermis and calicodermis, and the reduction in the number of zooxanthellae, indicate impairment to the corals critical physiological functions, in particular heterotrophy, autotrophy, and calcification
 
Date 2016-12-02T11:50:37Z
2016-12-02T11:50:37Z
2016
 
Type Book chapter
 
Identifier Diseases of Coral. ed. by: Woodley, C.M.; Downs, C.A.; Bruckner, A.W.; Porter, J.W.; Galloway, S.B.Wiley; Hoboken; New Jersey; 2016; 391-395
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/5052
 
Language en
 
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Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.