White Plague Decimating Corals May Be Viral, Not Bacterial Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Just as the black plague laid waste to communities across Medieval Europe, a 'white plague' has been decimating marine corals in the Caribbean. Once thought to be caused mainly by bacteria, researchers at Oregon State University have found that a group of small, circular, single-strand DNA (SCSD) viruses are connected to the dramatic rise of ...
Sept. 13, 2013 - redOrbit