COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Viruses associated with coral epidemic of "white plague"
Description: They call it the "white plague," and like its black counterpart from the Middle Ages, it conjures up visions of catastrophic death, with a cause that was at first uncertain even as it led to widespread destruction - on marine corals in the Caribbean Sea. Now one of the possible causes of this growing disease epidemic has been identified - a group of viruses that are known as small, circular, single-strand DNA (or SCSD) viruses. [Source: Oregon State University]
URL: http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/sep/viruses-associated-coral-epidemic-%E2%80%9Cwhite-plague%E2%80%9D
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Source: Oregon State University
Publish Date: 9/12/2013
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