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Sources I hope will be useful (should also mine out all those already cited): -- Philcha ( talk) 07:47, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
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Skeletal Eroding Band -
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help)Skeletal Eroding Band is the first recorded disease afflicting corals that is caused by a protozoan, and the first caused by a eucaryote. Most diseases of corals are caused by bacteria. [1] It was first noticed in 1988 near Papua New Guinea and then near Lizard Island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, but was regarded as a gray variant of Black Band Disease, as were instances off Mauritius in 1990. Surveys in 1994 in and around the Red Sea first identified the condition as a unique disease. [1] It is now considered the commonest disease of corals in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, especially in warmer or more polluted waters. [2]
SEB is a disease of stony coral that destroys the surface layer of the coral's limestone skeleton. SEB has been documented on coral reefs off shore near Sinai, along the coast of the Red Sea, and near the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef in the Pacific Ocean. [3]
The spread of the disease across an infected coral has been measured at 2 millimetres (0.079 in) * in the Red Sea and 2 to 3 millimetres (0.079 to 0.118 in) * around the Great Barrier Reef. [2] Corals of the families and Acroporidae and especially Pocilloporidae are most vulnerable. A study in 2008 found that Skeletal Eroding Band spread at about 2 millimetres (0.079 in) * per day in colonies of Acropora muricata, eventually wiping out 95% of its victims. However, experiments showed that H. corallasia easily colonized already-dead areas of corals but did not infect undamaged corals. [4]
— mattisse ( Talk) 00:52, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
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