Species ID of Coral Symbionts

We would like to give you all a “heads up” on a new paper we have just had published in the Journal of Phycology. Put briefly, two new species of Symbiodinium were formally described primarily using DNA sequences. The paper is: A genetics-based description of Symbiodinium minutum sp. nov. and S. psygmophilum sp. nov. (dinophyceae), […]

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Black Band Disease has new classification

Hi all – the same issue of Phycologia with the new Symbiodinium species also has a paper from my lab (Casamatta et al., 2012) formally describing the black band disease cyanobacterium.  This cyanobacterium, referred to over the years as Phormidium, Oscillatoria, Pseudoscillatoria, and various strains, was characterized using a polyphasic approach (sequencing, phylogeny, ecology, physiology) […]

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