The presence of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin in black band disease of corals
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- 1 July 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 272 (2), 182-187
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00751.x
Abstract
Black band disease (BBD) is a migrating, cyanobacterial dominated, sulfide-rich microbial mat that moves across coral colonies lysing coral tissue. WhKeywords
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