https://phys.org/news/2018-05-immune-response-diseased-corals.html

The research was published this month in Royal Society Open Science as "Transcriptional analyses provide new insight into the late-stage immune response of a diseased Caribbean coral." Mydlarz was senior author. Recent UTA biology doctoral graduate Lauren Fuess was first author. Former UTA biology doctoral graduate Whitney Mann and biology undergraduate Lea Jinks are also co-authors.

The researchers analyzed full transcriptomes or expressed genes of three healthy and three diseased specimens of Eunicea calyculata suffering from Eunicea Black Disease. Eunicea Black Disease is easily identified by the dark appearance of affected tissue.