Researchers race to understand disease killing #Caribbeancorals at unprecedented rates
Corals, like humans, sometimes get sick. But stony coral tissue loss disease #SCTLD is different, researchers say. It afflicts an unprecedented number of species, has spread over a vast area, kills incredibly quickly. Massive coral colonies, some hundreds of years old, can die within weeks or months, leaving reefs unrecognizable
Ruth Kamnitzer
#ClimateChange #CoralReefs
#CoralBleaching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/researchers-race-to-understand-new-disease-killing-caribbean-corals-at-unprecedented-rates/

"Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has wreaked havoc on coral reefs across the Caribbean, resulting in significant mortality of various coral species, including Pseudodiploria strigosa, which has been particularly affected in the Mexican Caribbean".

#coralreef #SCTLD #pseudodiploriastrigosa
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995219

Scientists discover new clues to cause of devastating #coral #disease.

#SCTLD #transcriptomics #symbionts #Symbiodiniaceae

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-scientists-clues-devastating-coral-disease.html