Dataset: Metadata used for developing model for transmission of the sponge disease Aplysina Red Band Syndrome from reef surveys conducted in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas, and Carrie Bow Cay, Belize from 2009-2014

Final no updates expectedVersion 01 Sept 2015 (2015-09-01)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator, Contact: Deborah J. Gochfeld (University of Mississippi)

Co-Principal Investigator: Marilyn Brandt (University of the Virgin Islands Center for Marine and Environmental Studies)

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

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Developing a model for transmission of an infectious disease of marine sponges (Sponge Disease Model)

See related publication: Easson et al. (2013)


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Easson, C. G., Slattery, M., Momm, H. G., Olson, J. B., Thacker, R. W., & Gochfeld, D. J. (2013). Exploring Individual- to Population-Level Impacts of Disease on Coral Reef Sponges: Using Spatial Analysis to Assess the Fate, Dynamics, and Transmission of Aplysina Red Band Syndrome (ARBS). PLoS ONE, 8(11), e79976. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079976