Rising temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea each summer lead to bleaching of the stony coral, Oculina patagonica, as it loses its endosymbiotic pigmented algae. In 1996, a former graduate student Ariel Kushmaro here at Tel Aviv University showed that Vibrio shiloi bacteria are responsible for the bleaching disease of O. patagonica.
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