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A standard field protocol for testing relative disease resistance in Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis

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1 NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, Florida, United States
2 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2668v1
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Accepted
Subject Areas
Conservation Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology
Keywords
coral disease, restoration, nursery
Copyright
© 2016 Miller et al.
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Miller MW, Williams DE. (2016) A standard field protocol for testing relative disease resistance in Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2668v1

Abstract

Coral disease has been identified as an ongoing threat to the recovery of sustainable coral populations. This document provides a standard field protocol for screening disease resistance traits in the imperiled coral species, Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis, particularly genotypes under nursery culture for population enhancement. It is intended to be implemented by practitioners and researchers in coral restoration and provide standardized information on disease resistance that can aid in the design and success of population enhancement efforts.

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This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.

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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Margaret W Miller conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables.

Dana E Williams conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables.

Field Study Permissions

The following information was supplied relating to field study approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Field testing for this protocol was conducted under permits from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (# FKNMS-20160024) and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (SAL-16-1775-SCRP).

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The research in this article did not generate, collect or analyse any raw data or code.

Funding

This work was supported by the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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