The Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Patterns of spread of coral disease in the Florida Keys....Pages 1-24
White-band disease and the changing face of Caribbean coral reefs....Pages 25-38
Quantitative assessment of coral diseases in the Florida Keys: strategy and methodology....Pages 39-52
Yellow band and dark spot syndromes in Caribbean corals: distribution, rate of spread, cytology, and effects on abundance and division rate of zooxanthellae....Pages 53-63
Stony coral diseases observed in southwestern Caribbean reefs....Pages 65-69
Integrating microbiological, microsensor, molecular, and physiologic techniques in the study of coral disease pathogenesis....Pages 71-89
Laboratory models for the study of coral pathologies....Pages 91-95
Coral bleaching and disease: contributors to 1998 mass mortality in Briareum asbestinum (Octocorallia, Gorgonacea)....Pages 97-104
Characterization of Aspergillus sydowii (Thom et Church), a fungal pathogen of Caribbean sea fan corals....Pages 105-111
Disease in Zoanthids: dynamics in space and time....Pages 113-130
Microbial disease causation in marine invertebrates: problems, practices, and future prospects....Pages 131-139
Marine ecosystems and cholera....Pages 141-145
Seasonal and interannual cycles of endemic cholera in Bengal 1891–1940 in relation to climate and geography....Pages 147-156
 Vibrio cholerae in recreational beach waters and tributaries of Southern California....Pages 157-164
Occurrence and distribution of the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus in a subtropical Gulf of Mexico estuary....Pages 165-173
Enteroviruses detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of Santa Monica Bay, California: low correlation to bacterial indicator levels....Pages 175-184
Demographic, landscape, and meteorological factors controlling the microbial pollution of coastal waters....Pages 185-193
Modeling studies of the effect of climate variability on MSX disease in eastern oyster ( Crassostrea virginica ) populations....Pages 195-212
How are climate and marine biological outbreaks functionally linked?....Pages 213-220
Mycoses in red snapper ( Lutjanus campechanus ) caused by two deuteromycete fungi (Penicillium corylophilum and Cladosporium sphaerospermum )....Pages 221-228