Yellow band disease is spreading
This affliction etches a swath of pale-yellow or white lesions along the surface of an infected coral colony. The discoloured band is a mark of death, indicating where the bacterial infection has killed the coral’s photosynthetic symbionts, called zooxanthellae. The coral host suffers from cellular damage and starves without its major energy source, and usually does not recover.
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