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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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Higher water temperatures from global warming, diseases such as white band disease and pollution from land have contributed to the widespread loss of the Acropora corals.
A Christmas coral: Stewards of the coral reefs have something to sing about
Branching corals dominated the shallow areas of most Caribbean reefs until the early to mid-1980s when white band disease decimated populations in Virgin Islands National Park and Buck Island Reef National Monument.
Lost at sea: coral reefs, considered the "rainforests" of the marine world, now have even more in common with those fragile ecosystems
Twenty years' worth of effort by other researchers has failed to yield consistent identification of a pathogen in another affliction, white band disease. The organism behind plague type I also remains unknown.
Bacteria cause plague in coral reef
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