Bacterial consortium of millepora dichotoma exhibiting unusual multifocal lesion event in the Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea

• Main Authors: Paramasivam, Nithyanand, Ben-Dov, Eitan, Arotsker, Luba, Kramarsky-Winter, Esti, Zvuloni, Assaf, Loya, Yossi, Kushmaro, Ariel
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99160; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17453
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Colonies of the hydrocoral Millepora dichotoma along the Gulf of Eilat are exhibiting unusual tissue lesions in the form of white spots. The emergence and rapid establishment of these multifocal tissue lesions was the first of its kind reported in this region. A characterization of this morphologica...