Black band disease
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Black band disease is a coral disease in which corals develop a black band. It is characterized by complete tissue degradation due to a pathogenic microbial consortium. The mat is present between appa
Example of black band disease progression on a colony of Diploria strigosa
Black band disease on a brain coral in Caribbean Sea near Bahia de la Chiva on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico
Buck Island Reef National Monument, 2010
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Cyanobacteria
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Cyanobacteria are a group of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria of the phylum Cyanobacteriota that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria originated in a freshwater or
Black band disease
…first observed on reefs in Belize in 1973 by A. Antonius, who described the pathogen he found infecting corals as Oscillatoria membranacea, one of the cyanobacteria. The band color may be blackish brown to red depending on the vertical position of a cyanobacterial population associated with the band. The vertical…
CSIRO Science Image 4203 A bluegreen algae species Cylindrospermum sp under magnification
Cyanobacteria are found almost everywhere. Sea spray containing marine microorganisms, including cyanobacteria, can be swept high into the atmosphere where they become aeroplankton, and can travel the globe before falling back to earth.
Prochlorococcus, an influential marine cyanobacterium which produces much of the world's oxygen
Unicellular and colonial cyanobacteria. (scale bars about 10 μm)