The Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases

Patterns of spread of coral disease in the Florida Keys.- White-band disease and the changing face of Caribbean coral reefs.- Quantitative assessment of coral diseases in the Florida Keys: strategy and methodology.- Yellow band and dark spot syndromes in Caribbean corals: distribution, rate of spread, cytology, and effects on abundance and division rate of zooxanthellae.- Stony coral diseases observed in southwestern Caribbean reefs.- Integrating microbiological, microsensor, molecular, and physiologic techniques in the study of coral disease pathogenesis.- Laboratory models for the study of coral pathologies.- Coral bleaching and disease: contributors to 1998 mass mortality in Briareum asbestinum (Octocorallia, Gorgonacea).- Characterization of Aspergillus sydowii (Thom et Church), a fungal pathogen of Caribbean sea fan corals.- Disease in Zoanthids: dynamics in space and time.- Microbial disease causation in marine invertebrates: problems, practices, and future prospects.- Marine ecosystems and cholera.- Seasonal and interannual cycles of endemic cholera in Bengal 1891-1940 in relation to climate and geography.- Vibrio cholerae in recreational beach waters and tributaries of Southern California.- Occurrence and distribution of the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus in a subtropical Gulf of Mexico estuary.- Enteroviruses detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of Santa Monica Bay, California: low correlation to bacterial indicator levels.- Demographic, landscape, and meteorological factors controlling the microbial pollution of coastal waters.- Modeling studies of the effect of climate variability on MSX disease in eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations.- How are climate and marine biological outbreaks functionallylinked?.- Mycoses in red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) caused by two deuteromycete fungi (Penicillium corylophilum and Cladosporium sphaerospermum).