Pseudoalteromonas piratica strain OCN003 is a coral pathogen that causes a switch from chronic to acute Montipora white syndrome in Montipora capitata

• Silvia Beurmann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sbeurmann@som.umaryland.edu

  Current address: Institute for Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  Affiliations Universtiy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Microbiology, Honolulu, HI, United States of America, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Kāneʻohe, HI, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5713-9212

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• Blake Ushijima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Oregon State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Corvallis, OR, United States of America

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• Patrick Videau,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dakota State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Madison, SD, United States of America

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• Christina Marie Svoboda,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Universtiy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Microbiology, Honolulu, HI, United States of America, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Kāneʻohe, HI, United States of America

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• Ashley Marie Smith,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliations Universtiy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Microbiology, Honolulu, HI, United States of America, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Kāneʻohe, HI, United States of America

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• Orion Silverstar Rivers,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Universtiy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Microbiology, Honolulu, HI, United States of America

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• Greta Smith Aeby,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Kāneʻohe, HI, United States of America

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• Sean Michael Callahan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliations Universtiy of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Microbiology, Honolulu, HI, United States of America, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, Kāneʻohe, HI, United States of America

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