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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2003, p. 2409-2413, Vol. 69, No. 4
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2409-2413.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cyanobacteria Associated with Coral Black Band Disease in Caribbean and Indo-Pacific Reefs

Jorge Frias-Lopez, George T. Bonheyo, Qusheng Jin, and Bruce W. Fouke*

Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Received 22 August 2002/ Accepted 9 January 2003

For 30 years it has been assumed that a single species of cyanobacteria, Phormidium corallyticum, is the volumetrically dominant component of all cases of black band disease (BBD) in coral. Cyanobacterium-specific 16S rRNA gene primers and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses were used to determine the phylogenetic diversity of these BBD cyanobacteria on coral reefs in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific Seas. These analyses indicate that the cyanobacteria that inhabit BBD bacterial mats collected from the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific Seas belong to at least three different taxa, despite the fact that the corals in each case exhibit similar signs and patterns of BBD mat development.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Geology, University of Illinois, 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801. Phone: (217) 244-5431. Fax: (217) 244-4996. E-mail: fouke{at}uiuc.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2003, p. 2409-2413, Vol. 69, No. 4
0099-2240/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2409-2413.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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