Parasites and coral‐associated invertebrates that impact coral health

Phestilla subodiosus sp. nov. (Nudibranchia, Trinchesiidae), a corallivorous pest species in the aquarium trade

(2020) Adam Wang et al.   ZooKeys

Benefits of herbivorous fish outweigh costs of corallivory in coral nurseries placed close to a Kenyan patch reef

(2019) EG Knoester et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Biological controls to manage Acropora-eating flatworms in coral aquaculture

(2019) JA Barton et al.   Aquaculture Environment Interactions

Climate change promotes parasitism in a coral symbiosis

(2018) David M. Baker et al.   ISME Journal

Vermetid gastropods modify physical and chemical conditions above coral–algal interactions

(2018) A. L. Brown et al.   OECOLOGIA

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE

Local management actions can increase coral resilience to thermally-induced bleaching

(2018) Elizabeth C. Shaver et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Intermediate host switches drive diversification among the largest trematode family: evidence from the Polypipapiliotrematinae n. subf. (Opecoelidae), parasites transmitted to butterflyfishes via predation of coral polyps

(2018) Storm B. Martin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Disentangling causation: complex roles of coral-associated microorganisms in disease

(2017) Hanaka Mera et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world's coral reefs

(2017) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

How do coral barnacles start their life in their hosts?

(2016) Jennie Chien Wen Liu et al.   Biology Letters

The rules for symbiont community assembly change along a mutualism-parasitism continuum

(2016) James Skelton et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Effect of an Otic Milbemycin Oxime Formulation on Tegastes acroporanus Infesting Corals

(2016) Barrett L. Christie et al.   JOURNAL OF AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH

Ciliate communities consistently associated with coral diseases

(2016) M.J. Sweet et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Characteristics of the infestation of Seriatopora corals by the coral gall crab Hapalocarcinus marsupialis Stimpson, 1859 on the great reef of toliara, Madagascar

(2016) Lucas Terrana et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Copepods associated with scleractinian corals: a worldwide checklist and a case study of their impact on the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Pocilloporidae)

(2016) YU­RONG CHENG et al.   ZOOTAXA

Red Fluorescent Protein Responsible for Pigmentation in Trematode-Infected Porites compressa Tissues

(2016) Caroline V. Palmer et al.   BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Multiple mechanisms of transmission of the Caribbean coral disease white plague

(2015) E. Clemens et al.   CORAL REEFS

Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

(2015) Madeleine J. H. van Oppen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Speciation, phenotypic plasticity, or ontogeny, the case of the genusGalkinius(Pyrgomatidae, Cirripedia, Crustacea)

(2015) Noa Simon-Blecher et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A Flatworm from the GenusWaminoa(Acoela: Convolutidae) Associated with Bleached Corals in Western Australia

(2015) Crystal Cooper et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Coral propagation: a review of techniques for ornamental trade and reef restoration

(2015) Jonathan A. Barton et al.   Reviews in Aquaculture

Tracking transparent monogenean parasites on fish from infection to maturity

(2015) Alejandro Trujillo-González et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Female reproductive morphology of coral-inhabiting gall crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Cryptochiridae)

(2014) Juliane Vehof et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Host species, range extensions, and an observation of the mating system of Atlantic shallow-water gall crabs (Decapoda: Cryptochiridae)

(2014) Sancia ET van der Meij   BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE

Crown-of-thorns starfish predation and physical injuries promote brown band disease on corals

(2014) Sefano M. Katz et al.   CORAL REEFS

Double Jeopardy and Global Extinction Risk in Corals and Reef Fishes

(2014) Terry P. Hughes et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Morphological and host specificity evolution in coral symbiont barnacles (Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) inferred from a multi-locus phylogeny

(2014) Ling Ming Tsang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The diversity, development and evolution of polyclad flatworm larvae

(2014) Kate A Rawlinson   EvoDevo

Diseases in coral aquaculture: causes, implications and preventions

(2013) Christopher Sheridan et al.   AQUACULTURE

The corallivorous invertebrate Drupella aids in transmission of brown band disease on the Great Barrier Reef

(2013) K. J. Nicolet et al.   CORAL REEFS

The corallivorous flatworm Amakusaplana acroporae: an invasive species threat to coral reefs?

(2013) Benjamin C. C. Hume et al.   CORAL REEFS

The endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium sp.) of corals are parasites and mutualists

(2013) M. P. Lesser et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coral tissue mortality of the coral Cladocora caespitosa caused by gastropod Coralliophila meyendorffi in the Mljet National Park (eastern Adriatic Sea)

(2013) Petar Kružić et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Background mortality rates for recovering populations of Acropora cytherea in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean

(2013) M.S. Pratchett et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Spawning of Three-Year-Old Acropora Millepora Corals Reared from Larvae in Northwestern Philippines

(2012) Maria Vanessa B Baria et al.   BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE

Cymo melanodactylus crabs slow progression of white syndrome lesions on corals

(2012) F. J. Pollock et al.   CORAL REEFS

Tissue loss in corals infested by acoelomorph flatworms (Waminoa sp.)

(2012) B. W. Hoeksema et al.   CORAL REEFS

Consistent deleterious effects of vermetid gastropods on coral performance

(2012) Jeffrey S. Shima et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Symbiotic association of a pyrgomatid barnacle with a coral from a volcanic middle Miocene shoreline (Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago, Portugal)

(2012) ANA SANTOS et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Discovery of the Corallivorous Polyclad Flatworm, Amakusaplana acroporae, on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia – the First Report from the Wild

(2012) Kate A. Rawlinson et al.   PLoS One

Predator Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci) Outbreak, Mass Mortality of Corals, and Cascading Effects on Reef Fish and Benthic Communities

(2012) Mohsen Kayal et al.   PLoS One

Epizoic acoelomorph flatworms impair zooplankton feeding by the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis

(2012) T. Wijgerde et al.   Biology Open

Molecular diversity and specificity of acoel worms associated with corals in the Gulf of Eilat (Red Sea)

(2011) O Barneah et al.   Aquatic Biology

Taxonomy and life history of the Acropora-eating flatworm Amakusaplana acroporae nov. sp. (Polycladida: Prosthiostomidae)

(2011) K. A. Rawlinson et al.   CORAL REEFS

Coral biomineralization: From the gene to the environment

(2011) Sylvie Tambutté et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Coral diseases in aquaria and in nature

(2011) Michael Sweet et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Where are larvae of the vermetid gastropod Dendropoma maximum on the continuum of larval nutritional strategies?

(2011) Nicole E. Phillips   MARINE BIOLOGY

The vermetid gastropod Dendropoma maximum reduces coral growth and survival

(2010) J. S. Shima et al.   Biology Letters

Are infestations of Cymo melanodactylus killing Acropora cytherea in the Chagos archipelago?

(2010) M. S. Pratchett et al.   CORAL REEFS

Variation in the structure of epifaunal invertebrate assemblages among coral hosts

(2010) J. S. Stella et al.   CORAL REEFS

Propagation of the threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis: methods to minimize the impacts of fragment collection and maximize production

(2010) D. Lirman et al.   CORAL REEFS

Levels of immunity parameters underpin bleaching and disease susceptibility of reef corals

(2010) Caroline V. Palmer et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Microhabitat use and prey selection of the coral-feeding snail Drupella cornus in the northern Red Sea

(2010) Verena Schoepf et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Coral mucus stable isotope composition and labeling: experimental evidence for mucus uptake by epizoic acoelomorph worms

(2010) Malik S. Naumann et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Tube-dwelling coral symbionts induce significant morphological change in Montipora

(2010) Gerick S. Bergsma   SYMBIOSIS

The infection process of the reef coral Stylophora pistillata by the parasitic copepod, Xarifia obesa

(2009) Y.-R. Cheng et al.   CORAL REEFS

Endosymbiotic copepods may feed on zooxanthellae from their coral host, Pocillopora damicornis

(2009) Y.-R. Cheng et al.   CORAL REEFS

Pink spots on Porites: not always a coral disease

(2009) Francesca Benzoni et al.   CORAL REEFS

Hastatus faviae n. gen., n. sp., a xarifiid copepod parasitic in the honeycomb coral of Taiwan

(2009) Ju-Shey Ho et al.   CRUSTACEANA

Immune defenses of healthy, bleached and diseased Montastraea faveolata during a natural bleaching event

(2009) LD Mydlarz et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Larval metamorphosis of Phestilla spp. in response to waterborne cues from corals

(2009) Raphael Ritson-Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

The global economic cost of sea lice to the salmonid farming industry

(2009) Mark J Costello   JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES

On the spatial distribution, feeding and reproduction of the vermetid gastropod Dendropoma maximum

(2009) Roger N. Hughes et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Association of Waminoa sp. (Acoela) with corals in the Wakatobi Marine Park, South-East Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2009) Jessica Haapkylä et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

The coral reef crisis: The critical importance of

(2009) J.E.N. Veron et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microbial disease and the coral holobiont

(2009) David G. Bourne et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Impact of coral predators on tropical reefs

(2008) RD Rotjan et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Evidence of an inflammatory-like response in non-normally pigmented tissues of two scleractinian corals

(2008) C. V Palmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES