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<P>Dear Coral List-Server Member:</P>
<P>I wish to announce the publication of my book on coral diseases, <I>The
Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases,</I> which will be
published by Kluwer Academic Press in October of this year. This edited volume
has 20 papers; the Table of Contents is listed below.</P>
<P>The purchase price after October will be around $150.00, but Kluwer has
graciously agreed to sell this book to Coral List Server members for $55.00 (the
same price as for authors who have articles appearing in the book). Although the
book will be shipped from The Netherlands, I have to collect the money from each
pre-publication purchaser. They appear to be treating this almost as if it were
a reprint order, with the reprint orders placed in advance of the publication
date.</P>
<P>If you are interested in getting a copy of this book, please e-mail your
intent to purchase this book to Kluwer’s Special Issues Coordinator, Ms. Cynthia
de Jonge (<A href="mailto:cynthia.dejong@wkap.nl">cynthia.dejong@wkap.nl</A>)
and include your full mailing address for their shipping department. Please copy
this e-mail to me <U>(</U><A
href="mailto:jporter@arches.uga.edu">jporter@arches.uga.edu</A><U>) </U>and send
a check or money order to: Dr. James W. Porter / Institute of Ecology /
University of Georgia / Athens / GA / 30602 / USA. The money must be received by
15-October-2001; only books that have been pre-paid will be shipped from
Holland.</P>
<P>I truly apologize for this odd way of doing business, but these are their
rules, and to take advantage of the reduced price, we have to abide by them.
</P>
<P>Sincerely,</P>
<P>Jim Porter</P>
<P>Table of Contents</P>
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<P>Chapter 1 Porter, Dustan, Jaap, Patterson, Kosmynin, Meier,
Patterson, and Parsons. <I>Patterns of spread of coral disease in the Florida
Keys</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 2 Aronson and Precht <I>White-band and the changing face
of Caribbean coral reefs</P></I>
<P>Chapter 3 Santavy, Mueller, Peters, MacLaughlin, Porter,
Patterson, and Campbell. <I>Quantitative assessment of coral diseases in the
Florida Keys: Strategy and methodology</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 4 Cervino, Goreau, Nagelkerken, Smith, and Hayes.
<I>Yellow band and dark spot syndromes in Caribbean corals: Distribution, rate
of spread, cytology, and effects on abundance and division rate of
zooxanthellae.</P></I>
<P>Chapter 5 Garzon-Ferreira, Gil-Agudelo, Barrios, and Zea .
<I>Stony coral diseases observed in southwestern Caribbean.</P></I>
<P>Chapter 6 Richardson, Smith, Ritchie, and Carlton. <I>Integrating
microbiological, microsensor, molecular, and physiologic techniques in the study
of coral disease</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 7 Scully, Prappas and Ostrander. <I>Laboratory models for
the study of coral pathologies</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 8 Harvell, Kim, Quirolo, Weir, and Smith. <I>Coral
bleaching and disease: Contributors to 1998 mass mortality in Briareum
asbestinum (0ctocorallia, Gorgonacea)</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 9 Alker, Smith, and Kim. <I>Characterization of
Aspergillus sydowii (Thom </I>et<I> Church), a fungal pathogen of Caribbean sea
fan corals</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 10 Acosta. <I>Disease in Zoanthids: dynamics in space and
time</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 11 Ritchie, Polson, and Smith. <I>Microbial disease
causation in marine invertebrates: Problems, practices, and future
prospects</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 12 Colwell and Huq <I>Marine ecosystems and
cholera</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 13 Bouma and Pascual <I>Seasonal and interannual cycles
of endemic cholera in Bengal 1891-1940 in relation to climate and
geography</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 14 Jiang <I>Vibrio cholerae in coastal waters of Southern
California: Abundance, distribution and relationship to environmental
conditions</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 15 Lipp, Rodriguez-Palacios, and Rose. <I>Occurrence and
distribution of the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus in a subtropical Gulf of
Mexico estuary</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 16 Noble and Fuhrman <I>Enteroviruses detected by reverse
transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of Santa Monica
Bay, California: Low correlation to bacterial indicator levels.</P></I>
<P>Chapter 17 Mallin, Ensign, McIver, Shank, and Fowler.
<I>Demographic, landscape, and meteorological factors controlling the microbial
pollution of coastal waters.</P></I>
<P>Chapter 18 Hofmann, Ford, Powell, and Klinck. <I>Modeling studies
of the effect of climate variability on MSX disease in eastern oyster
(Crassostrea virginica) populations</I>.</P>
<P>Chapter 19 Hayes, Bonaventura, Mitchell, Prospero, Shinn, Van
Dolah, and Barber. <I>How are climate and marine biological outbreaks
functionally linked?</P></I>
<P>Chapter 20 Blaylock, Overstreet, and Klich. <I>Mycoses in red
snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) caused by two deuteromycete fungi (Penicillium
corylophilum and Cladosporium
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