Dataset: Chlorophyll-a, cyanobacteria, fluorescence and total protein in healthy and diseased sponges in the Bahamas and Belize from 2008-2011 (Etiology of ARBS sponge disease project)

Final no updates expectedVersion (2012-01-25)Dataset Type:Unknown

Principal Investigator: Julie Olson (University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa)

Co-Principal Investigator: Deborah J. Gochfeld (University of Mississippi (Ole Miss))

Co-Principal Investigator: Robert W. Thacker (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Aplysina Red Band Syndrome: Investigating the etiology, pathogenesis, and ecology of an emerging marine disease (Etiology of ARBS sponge disease)

To assess the interacting effects of nutrients and disease on Aplysina cauliformis, we provided nutrient enrichment to healthy and diseased sponges in a factorial experiment at LSI in the summer of 2009. Impacts on ARBS virulence (rate of lesion growth) and host response (growth and physiology of both the sponge and its cyanobacterial symbionts, Synechococcus spongiarum) were assessed.


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