An ancient microorganism known as archaea may hold a crucial key to saving our coral reefs from the increasingly dangerous black band disease, according to Townsville researchers. Dr Yui Sato is researching black band disease at the Australian Institute of Marine Science using DNA- and RNA-sequencing technologies, and has found a microbe from the primitive…
The potential for a herpes-like viral outbreak in corals may just be a bug in the system, a Queensland scientist has found. Dr Elisha Wood-Charlson, of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, revealed that previous reports of herpes-like viruses infecting coral were incorrect, with viruses more likely to infect the microbes living on the coral’s…
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