Talk:White band disease

Considerable errors in disease identification / terminology, noteably:

Brown band disease is solely reported from the GBR (Willis et al 2004) and is unlikely to be caused by the notorious aquarium 'brown jelly' ciliate Helicostoma nonatum (Borneman 2000) or cyanobacteria.

Black band disease is a microbial consortium dominated by Phormidium corallyticum, although the causative agent is still elusive (Koch's postulates)

Black necrosing syndrome is specific to gorgonians on the GBR (Willis et al 2004) and is different to the Caribbean syndrome Dark spots disease which affects scleractinian corals (see Borger 2005)

amongst other changes made.

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The information added to the article expands upon the ecological impact of the disease and how it effects the world as a whole. The protection and conservation of coral reefs is crucial to maintaining the fish populations for the world as a whole as well.Bantol13795 (talk) 19:39, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I studied this disease this semester too… just putting it out there that some things need to be fixed. It was good that this got updated, but a number of the sources are pretty old, and do not reflect the current state of research, such as Green—always make sure to put dates on any citations, not just on Wikipedia! Specifically, we really shouldn't be so fuzzy about what the disease is, because marine biologists have come up with a working definition in which "white band" exclusively refers to the Caribbean coral disease, since Green's article was published. And there is a bit more known about the disease's transmission and likely pathogen. It will be a good while before I have time to address this, but anyone else who wants to work on this article meanwhile should be aware of these issues. &mdash;innotata 20:03, 30 April 2014 (UTC)