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Informationen zum Autor James Porter is Professor of Ecology and Marine Sciences at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Cheryl Woodley is the Chair of the Coral Disease and Health Consortium for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Klappentext Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world's coral reefs. There is a great interest from many in preserving coral reefs. Unfortunately, the field of epizootiology is disorganized and lacks a standard vocabulary, methods, and diagnostic techniques, and tropical marine scientists are poorly trained in wildlife pathology, veterinary medicine, and epidemiology. Diseases of Coral will help to rectify this situation. Zusammenfassung Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world's coral reefs, as there is a growing interest in their preservation. Unfortunately, until this point the field of coral epizootiology has been disorganized and has lacked a standard vocabulary, methods, and diagnostic techniques. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Editors' Comment: Recent Changes in Coral Taxonomy xiii 1 Introduction 1 James W. Porter 2 Pathology 4 Cheryl M. Woodley, Russell A. Harley, James H. Nicholson and Taylor L. Reynolds 3 Etiology 16 Michael Thrusfield 4 Epidemiology 28 Michael Thrusfield 5 History of Coral Disease Research 52 Andrew W. Bruckner 6 Anatomy 85 Esther C. Peters 7 Morphological, Physiological and Cytological Aspects of Reproduction in Scleractinian Corals 108 Esti Kramarsky¿Winter 8 The Innate Immune System in Cnidarians 125 Thomas C. G. Bosch and Philip Rosenstiel 9 Endocrine¿Like Signaling in Corals 138 Ann M. Tarrant 10 Heterotrophic Nutrition of Tropical, Temperate and Deep¿Sea Corals 150 Fanny Houlbrèque, Riccardo RodolföMetalpa and Christine Ferrier¿Pagès 11 Nervous System: Morphology and Physiology of Cnidarian Conducting Systems 164 Gabriele Kass¿Simon and Linda A. Hufnagel 12 Physiology of Skeletogenesis in Scleractinian Coral 192 Fuad A. Al¿Horani 13 Vibriosis 206 Luba Arotsker and Ariel Kushmaro 14 Acroporid Serratiosis 221 Kathryn Patterson Sutherland, Erin K. Lipp and James W. Porter 15 Aurantimonas coralicida-White Plague Type II 231 Laurie L. Richardson 16 Aspergillosis of Caribbean Sea Fan Corals, Gorgonia spp. 236 Kiho Kim and Krystal Rypien 17 Mechanical Lesions and Corallivory 242 Andrew W. Bruckner and Robin J. Bruckner 18 Coral Bleaching: The Roles of Sea Temperature and Solar Radiation 266 Barbara E. Brown and Richard P. Dunne 19 Viruses and Coral Disease 284 William H. Wilson and Cheryl M. Woodley 20 Skeletal Growth Anomalies in Corals 291 Thierry M. Work, Longin T. Kaczmarsky and Esther C. Peters 21 White Syndromes of IndöPacific Corals 300 David G. Bourne, Tracy D. Ainsworth and Bette L. Willis 22 White Syndromes of Western Atlantic Reef¿Building Corals 316 Andrew W. Bruckner 23 IndöPacific Colored¿Band Diseases of Corals 333 Laurie J. Raymundo and Ernesto Weil 24 Cyanobacterial¿Associated Colored¿Band Diseases of the Atlantic/Caribbean 345 Laurie L. Richardson, Aaron W. Miller, Patricia L. Blackwelder and Husain Al¿Sayegh 25 Dark¿Spots Disease 354 Thierry M. Work and Ernesto Weil 26 Halofolliculina Ciliate Infections on Corals (Skeletal Eroding Disease) 361 Cathie A. Page, Aldo Cróquer, Carolina Bastidas, Sebastian Rodríguez, Stephen J. Neale, Ernesto Weil and Bette L. Willis ...
