Additional Reading

The following is a short alphabetical list of articles and books regarding coral diseases that may be of interest. Most of them are cited in the other parts of the Coral Disease Page. However, it is not our intent to provide an exhaustive list of all the published works on coral disease. Neither do we intend to include every paper published by any of the individuals who are mentioned here.

Please note that none of these references are available at this site. This is simply a list to get the reader pointed in the correct direction. You may also wish to check out the publication list at the NOAA Coral Health and Monitoring Program page.

• Ahmadjian, V., and Paracer, S. 1986. Symbiosis: An Introduction to Biological Associations. University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.

• Antonius, A. 1981. Coral reef pathology - A review. Proceedings, 4th International Coral Reef Symposium, Manila, 2:3-6.

• Antonius, A. 1985. Coral diseases in the Indo-Pacific: A first record. P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology 6:197-218.

• Antonius, A. 1988. Distribution and dynamics of coral diseases in the Eastern Red Sea. Proceedings, 6th International Coral Reef Symposium, 2:293-299.

• Bak, R.P.M. 1983. Neoplasia, regeneration, and growth in the reef-building coral Acropora palmata. Marine Biology, 77:221-227.

• Birkeland, C. (Ed.) 1997. Life and Death of Coral Reefs. Chapman & Hall, New York, New York, USA.

• Bruckner, A.W., R.J. Bruckner, and E.H. Williams, Jr. 1997. Spread of a black-band disease epizootic through the reef system in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine Science, 61: 919-928.

• Bythell, J., and C. Sheppard. 1993. Mass mortality of Caribbean shallow corals. Marine Pollution Bulletin 26:296-297.

• Carlton, R.G., and L.L. Richardson. 1995. Oxygen and sulfide dynamics in a horizontally migrating cyanobacterial mat: Black band disease of corals. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 18:155-162.

• Cheney, D.P. 1977. Hard tissue tumors in scleractinian corals. In Immunologic Phylogeny, ed. W.H. Hildemann and A.A. Benedict, pp. 77-85. Plenum Press, New York.

• Coles, S.L., and Seapy, D.G. 1998. Ultra-violet absorbing compounds and tumorous growths on acroporid corals from Bandar Khayran, Gulf of Oman, Indian Ocean. Coral Reefs 17(2): 195-198.

• Dinsdale, E. A. 1994. Coral disease on the Great Barrier Reef. Joint Conference on Scientific Management and Sustainability of Marine Habitats on the Great Barrier Reef.

• Dustan, P. 1977. Vitality of reef coral populations off Key Largo, Florida: Recruitment and mortality. Environmental Geology 2:51-58.

• Edmunds, P.J. 1994. Evidence that reef-wide patterns of coral bleaching may be the result of the distribution of bleaching-susceptible clones. Marine Biology 121:137-142.

• Gladfelter, W.B. 1982. White-band disease in Acropora palmata: Implications for the structure and growth of shallow reefs. Bulletin of Marine Science 32:639-643.

• Glynn, P. 1993. Coral reef bleaching: Ecological perspectives. Coral Reefs 12:1-17.

• Humann, P. 1993. Reef Coral Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications, Jacksonville, Florida.

• Kushmaro, A., Y. Loya, M. Fine, and E. Rosenberg. 1996. Bacterial infection and coral bleaching. Nature 380:396.

• Kuta, K.G., and L. L. Richardson. 1996. Abundance and distribution of black band disease on coral reefs in the northern Florida Keys. Coral Reefs 15: 19-223.

• Littler, M.M., and D.S. Littler. 1995. Impact of CLOD pathogen on Pacific coral reefs. Science 267:1356-1360.

• Littler, M.M., and D.S. Littler. 1996. Black band disease in the South Pacific. Coral Reefs15:20.

• Loya, Y., G. Bull, and M. Pichon. 1984. Tumor formations in scleractinian corals. Helgolander Meersuntersuchungen, 37: 138-151.

• Nagelkerken, I., K. Buchan, G. W. Smith, K. Bonair, P. Bush, J. Garzón-Ferreira, L. Botero, P. Gayle, C. Heberer, C. Petrovic, L. Pors, and P. Yoshioka. 1997. Widespread disease in Caribbean sea fans: I. Spreading and general characteristics. Proceedings, 8th International Coral Reef Symposium,1: 679-682.

• Peters, E.C. 1984. A survey of cellular reactions to environmental stress and disease in Caribbean scleractinian corals. Helgo. Meeresunters. 37:113-137.

• Peters, E.C. 1993. Diseases of other invertebrate phyla: Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Annelida, Echinodermata. In Pathobiology of Marine and Estuarine Organisms, J.A. Couch and J.W. Fournie, eds., pp. 393-449. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

• Peters, E.C., J.C. Halas, and H.B. McCarty. 1986. Calicoblastic neoplasms in Acropora palmata, with a review of reports on anomalies of growth and form in corals. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 76(5):895-912.

• Peters, E.C., and H.B. McCarty. 1996. Carbonate crisis? Geotimes 41(4):20-23.

• Richardson, L.L. 1992. Red band disease: A new cyanobacterial infestation of corals. American Academy of Underwater Scientists Diving for Science 10:153-160.

• Ritchie, K.B., and G.B. Smith. 1995. Preferential carbon utilization by surface bacterial communities from water mass, normal, and white-band diseased Acropora cervicornis. J. Mar. Biotechnol. 4:345-352.

• Rowan, R., N. Knowlton, and J. Jara. 1997. Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching. Nature 388: 265-269.

• Rutzler, K. and Santavy, D. 1983. The black band disease of Atlantic reef corals. I. Description of a cyanophyte pathogen. P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology, 4:301-319.

• Rutzler, K., Santavy, D., and Antonius, A. 1983. The black band disease of Atlantic reef corals. III. Distribution, ecology, and development. P.S.Z.N.I.: Marine Ecology, 4:329-358.

• Santavy, D.L., and E.C. Peters. 1997. Microbial pests: Coral disease in the western Atlantic. Proceedings, 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, 1:607-612.

• Sindermann, C.J. 1995. Ocean Pollution: Effects on Living Resources and Humans. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

• Smith, G., L.D. Ives, I.A. Nagelkerken, and K.B. Ritchie. 1996. Aspergillosis associated with Caribbean sea fan mortalities. Nature 382:487.

• Upton, S.J. and E.C. Peters. 1986. A new and unusual species of coccidium (Apicomplexa: Agammococcidorida) from Caribbean scleractinian corals. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 47:184-193.

• Williams, E.H., Jr., and L. Bunkley-Williams. 1990. The world-wide coral reef bleaching cycle and related sources of coral mortality. Atoll Research Bulletin 335:1-71.

• Zorpette, G. 1995. More coral trouble. Scientific American 273:37-38.