Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 15 minutes ago

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Timelapse video showing a diverse community of ciliates eating apparently healthy coral tissue on a white band diseased Acropora cervicornis.

See the original research by Sweet et al, in the paper 'Experimental antibiotic treatment identifies potential pathogens of white band disease in the endangered Caribbean coral Acropora cervicornis.' published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B (dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0094)