Gantar, M., R. Sekar and L.L. Richardson. 2009. Cyanotoxins from black band disease of corals and from other coral reef environments. Microbial Ecology. Doi:org/10.1007/s00248-009-9540-x
L.L. Richardson, A.W. Miller, E. Broderick, L. Kaczmarsky, M. Gantar, D. Stanić and R. Sekar. 2009. Sulfide, microcystin, and the etiology of black band disease. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. Doi:10/3354/dao02083
Sokolow, S.H., P. Foley, J. Foley, A. Hastings and L.L. Richardson. 2009. Disease dynamics in marine metapopulations: modeling infectious diseases on coral reefs. Journal of Applied Ecology. Doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01649.x
Sekar, R., L. Kaczmarsky and L.L. Richardson. 2009. Effect of freezing on PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA gene from microbes associated with black band disease of corals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75:2581-2584.
Myers, J.L. and L.L. Richardson. 2009. Adaptation of cyanobacteria to the sulfide-rich microenvironment of black band disease of coral. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 67:242-251.
Work, T.M., L.L. Richardson, T.L. Reynolds and B.L. Willis. 2008. Biomedical and veterinary science can increase our understanding of coral disease. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 62:63-70.
Sekar, R., L. Kaczmarsky and L.L. Richardson. 2008. Microbial community composition of black band disease on the coral host Siderastrea siderea from three regions of the wider Caribbean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 362:38-98.
Richardson L.L. and D.N. Ragoonath. 2008. Organic carbon enhances dark survival of the cyanobacterium Geitlerinema sp. isolated from black band disease of corals. Revista de Biologίa Tropical. 56 (Suppl. 1): 119-126.
Myers, J.L., R. Sekar and L.L. Richardson. 2007. Molecular detection and ecological significance of the cyanobacterial genera Geitlerinema and Leptolyngbya in black band disease of corals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73:5173-5182.
Richardson, L.L., R. Sekar, J. Myers, M. Gantar, E.R. Remily, L. Kaczmarsky, J.D. Voss, G.L. Boyer and P.V. Zimba. 2007. The presence of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin in black band disease of corals. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 272:182-187.
Voss, J.D., D.K. Mills, Myers, J.L., E.R. Remily and L.L. Richardson. 2007. Black band disease microbial community variation on corals in three regions of the wider Caribbean. Microbial Ecology. 54:730-739
Kaczmarsky, L. and L.L. Richardson. 2007. Transmission of growth anomalies between Indo-Pacific Porites corals. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 94:218-221.
Sekar, R., D.K. Mills, E.R. Remily, J.D. Voss and L.L. Richardson. 2006. Microbial communities in the surface mucopolysaccharide layer and the black band microbial mat of black band diseased Siderastrea siderea. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72:5963-5973
Voss, J.D. and L.L. Richardson. 2006. Nutrient enrichment enhances black band disease progression in corals. Coral Reefs. 25:569-576
Remily, E.R. and L.L. Richardson. 2006. Ecological physiology of a coral pathogen and the coral reef environment. Microbial Ecology. 51:345-352
Viehman, S., D.K. Mills, G.W. Meichel and L.L. Richardson. 2006. Culture and identification of Desulfovibrio spp. from corals infected by black band disease on Dominican and Florida Keys reefs. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 69:119-127
Voss, J.D. and L.L. Richardson. 2006. Coral diseases near Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas: patterns and potential drivers. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 69:33-40
Richardson, L.L., D.K. Mills, E.R. Remily and J.D. Voss. 2005. Development and field application of a species-specific molecular probe for the primary pathogen of the coral disease white plague type II. Revista de Biología Tropical Vol. 53 (Suppl. 1):1-10
Richardson, L.L. and J..D. Voss. 2005. Changes in a coral population on reefs of the northern Florida Keys following a coral disease epizootic. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 297:147-156
L. L. Richardson . 2004. Black band disease. In: Coral Reef Health and Disease, E. Rosenberg and Y. Loya (Eds.), Springer- Verlag, p. 325-336.
J.C. Bythell, O. Pantos, and L. L. Richardson . 2004. White plague, white band, and the other "white" diseases. In: Coral Reef Health and Disease, E. Rosenberg and Y. Loya (Eds.), Springer-Verlag , p. 351-364.
L.L. Richardson and K.G. Kuta. 2003. Ecological physiology of the black band disease cyanobacterium Phormidium corallyticum. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 3:287-298.
Denner, E.B.M., G.W. Smith, H-J. Busse, P. Schumann, T. Narzt, S. Polson,W. Lubitz, and L.L. Richardson. 2003. Aurantimonas coralicida gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of plague type II disease on Caribbean scleractinian corals. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53:1115-1122.
Garrison V.H., E.A. Shinn, W.T. Foreman, D.W. Griffin, C.W. Holmes, C.A. Kellogg, M.S. Majewski, L.L. Richardson, K.B. Ritchie, G.W. Smith. 2003. African and Asian dust: From desert soils to coral reefs. BioScience. 53:469-480.
Richardson , L.L. and R.B. Aronson. 2002. Infectious diseases of reef corals. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium . Vol. 2 p. 1225-1230.
Kuta, K.G. and L.L. Richardson. 2002. Ecological aspects of black band disease of corals: relationship between disease incidence and environment. Coral Reefs. 21:393-398.
Viehman, T.S. and L.L. Richardson. 2002. Motility patterns of Beggiatoa and Phormidium corallyticum in black band disease. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium. Vol 2, p. 1251-1256.
Richardson , L.L ., G.W. Smith, K.B. Ritchie and R.G. Carlton. 2001. Integrating microbiological, microsensor, molecular, and physiologic techniques for the study of coral disease pathogenesis. Hydrobiologia. 460:71-89.
Richardson , L.L. 2000. Coral epidemiology. In: Opportunities for Environmental Applications of Marine Biotechnology, Proceedings of the Workshop, Biology Board, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington DC. pp. 85-95
Richardson L.L. , W.M. Goldberg, K.G. Kuta, R.B. Aronson,G.W. Smith K.B. Ritchie, J.C. Halas, J.S. Feingold and S.M. Miller. 1998. Florida's mystery coral-killer identified. Nature. 392:557-558.
Richardson , L.L. , W.M. Goldberg, R.G. Carlton and J.C. Halas. 1998. Coral disease outbreak in the Florida Keys : Plague Type II. Revista de Biología Tropical. 46 (Supl. 5):187-198.
Richardson , L.L. 1998. Coral diseases: What is really known? Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 13:438-443.
Richardson , L.L. , K. Kuta, S. Schnell, and R.G. Carlton. 1997. Ecology of the black band disease microbial consortium. Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium. 1:597-600.
Kuta, K.G. and L.L. Richardson. 1997. Fate of black band diseased corals in the Florida Keys . Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium. 1:575-578.
Kuta, K. and L.L. Richardson. 1996. Abundance and distribution of black band disease of corals in the northern Florida Keys. Coral Reefs. 15:219-223.
Richardson , L.L. 1996. Motility patterns of Phormidium corallyticum and Beggiatoa spp. associated with black band disease of corals. Microbial Ecology. 32:323-335.
Richardson , L.L. 1997. Occurrence of the the black-band disease cyanobacterium on healthy corals of the Florida Keys . Bulletin of Marine Science. 61:485-490.
Carlton , R.G. and L.L. Richardson. 1995. Oxygen and sulfide dynamics in a horizontally migrating cyanobacterial mat: Black band disease of corals. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 18:155-162.
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