Tropical corals are severely threatened by white band disease, which can destroy the tissues of several species in the Caribbean. Researchers from the Vollmer and Patterson Labs, working from a base at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, have explored the possibility that zooplankton may be a vector for the spread of this disease in the critically endangered coral, Acropora cervicornis. Their findings were recently published in PeerJ.
Marine and Environmental Sciences