Mass Mortality of Porites Corals on Northern Persian Gulf Reefs due to Sediment-Microbial Interactions
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Date
2013
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Little information is available on coral diseases in the Persian Gulf; however, in the recent years, reports of coral diseases increased in particular from Iranian side of the Persian Gulf. In this paper we report a White Mat Disease resulting in mass mortality of Porites colonies at Hormuz Island. This outbreak infected 96% of all Porites colonies and killed 58±30% (mean ± SD) of all Porites tissues.Journal
International Journal of Marine ScienceVolume
3Issue/Article Nr
38Page Range
306-310Resource/Dataset Location
http://doi.org/10.5376/ijms.2013.03.0038ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.5376/ijms.2013.03.0038
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