white band disease

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white band disease [‚wīt ′band diz‚ēz]

(invertebrate zoology)

A coral reef disease that is typified by a loss of tissue that is visible as a band of bare white skeleton.

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No references found			The first three diseases to be reported in coral--black and white band disease and white plague--were not described until the 1970s (Richardson 1998), and highly destructive effects were only first noted during the early 1980s with the recognition that structurally-important acroporid corals were being eliminated by white band disease throughout areas of the Caribbean (Gladfelter 1982). A Review of Marine Major Ecological Disturbances by McKay, Bruce; Mulvaney, Kieran / Endangered Species Update Twenty years' worth of effort by other researchers has failed to yield consistent identification of a pathogen in another affliction, white band disease. Bacteria cause plague in coral reef by Milius, Susan / Science News			whistler wave Whistler's mother Whistler, George Whistler, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, James Abbott Mcneill Whistler, James McNeill whistling meteor whistling swan Whiston, William Whit Whit Sunday Whit-Monday Whitaker Whitaker, Charles Harris Whitby Whitby, Synod Whitby, Synod of Whitcomb, Richard white white adipose tissue white alder White Amur white and green white ant white balance white band disease White Bear Lake white belt of wampum White Bill white blood cell white body white book White book CD-ROM white box white box testing White Boys white butterfly white camellia white carbon black White Carpathian Mountains white cast iron white cedar white cement white chrysanthemum white clay White Clay Creek Preserve White Clay Creek State Park white cloud white coal white coat white cobalt			white as a ghost white as a sheet white as a sheet white as a sheet white as a sheet White as Snow white as the driven snow White asbestos White asbestos White asbestos white ash White Ashkenazi Sabra Paratrooper White asparagus White asparagus White asparagus white aspen White Atrophy White Australia White Australia Movement White Australia policy White Australian Policy white avens White Backed Planthopper white backlash White Bag White balance White balance White Balance Card white balances White balancing white band disease white baneberry White Banksia White Bar Code white bass white bass white basses white basses white basswood white bead white bean white bear White Bear Animal Hospital White Bear Boat Works White Bear Lake White Bear Lake Area White Bear Lake Area Educational Foundation White Bear Lake Area High School White Bear Lake Area Hockey Association White Bear Lake Branch Library White Bear Lake Conservation District White Bear Suppression Inventory White Bear Yacht Club white bedstraw white beech white beer white belt of wampum

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