Science Nation: Even Healthy Corals Have Viruses

Coral with a patch of color and the rest white. Caption: and it can kill multiple species of corals.

Corals are important ecosystem engineers, providing habitat and nutrient recycling to tropical reefs. However, coral species’ richness and abundance are in decline worldwide, due in large part to the impacts from global industrialization and human population growth. Coral disease is a major contributor to this decline of tropical reefs, and therefore, investigations into the causes of and remedies to these diseases are of critical importance. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”

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  • Science Nation: Even Healthy Corals Have Viruses

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    Author:
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