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Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.02738-06
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Increased prevalence of ubiquitous ascomycetes in an acropoid coral (Acropora formosa) exhibiting symptoms of brown band syndrome and skeletal eroding band

Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environemtal Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel, and Centre for Marine Studies University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, 4072, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat, P.O.B 469, Eilat 88103, Israel

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: Oded.yarden{at}huji.ac.il.

	Abstract

The prevalence of coral-associated fungi was 4 times higher in diseased Acropora formosa than that on healthy colonies. As taxonomically-related fungal species were isolated from diseased and healthy colonies, we suggest that their association with coral may be constitutive, yet their abundance dependent on coral health.

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