Table 1.

List of peer-review publication aimed at testing the effect of potential vectors on coral disease transmission; listed by main finding, disease type, vector organism, pathogen species, transmission mechanism and source.

Finding	Disease	Vector	Pathogen	Mechanism	Source
Vector transmitted parasite	Trematodiasis	Chaetodon multicinctus	Podocotyloides stenometra	P. stenometra has a complex life cycle involving a molluscan first intermediate host, Porites coral as the second intermediate host, and coral-feeding fish as the final host	Aeby35–39
Pathogen detected within the vector’s body	Vibrio shiloi Bleaching	Hermodice carunculata	Vibrio shiloi	Worms contained viable V. shiloi bacteria and transmitted bleaching to healthy Oculina patagonica	Sussman et al.26
	Aspergillosis	Cyphoma gibbosum	Aspergillus syndowii	A. syndowii was found to survive through the digestive track of the snail. Viable spores and hyphae in snail faeces.	Rypien & Baker40
	Acroporid Serratiosis	Coralliophila abbreviata	Serratia marcescens	Bacterial strains from C. abbreviate successfully infected Acropora palamata in aquaria	Sutherland et al.19
Vector transmitted disease in controlled experiments	Unknown Disease	Coralliophila abbreviata	Unknown	Snails feeding on infected colonies transmitted disease to healthy nubbins	Williams & Miller27
	White Band Disease	Coralliophila abbreviata	Vibrio and Rickettsiales bacteria	Snails collected from the field transmitted WBD to healthy nubbins in aquaria	Gignoux-Wolfsohn et al.41
	Brown Band Disease	Drupella sp.	Philaster guamensis	Snails collected on infected colonies in the field transmitted BrB to healthy nubbins in the laboratory	Nicolet et al.28
Correlation between disease onset and either presence of or predation by vector	Coral Diseases	Drupella cornus	Various	Correlation between abundance of snail and diseases prevalence	Antonius & Riegl42
	Unknown Disease	Phestilla sp	Unknown	One nudibranch was placed on 7 coral fragments and progressive coral tissue mortality followed predation	Dalton & Godwin43
	Unknown Disease	Hermodice carunculata	Unknown	H. carunculata commonly observed feeding on disease margin	Miller & Williams44
	Coral Diseases	Chaetodontids	Various	Correlation between chaetodontids density and coral disease prevalence	Raymundo et al.29
	Black Band, Brown Band Disease	Chaetodontids	P. guamensis, bacterial consortium	Chaetodon aureofasciatus, C. baronessa, C. lunulatus, C. plebeius and C. trifascialis selectively targeted disease lesions over adjacent healthy coral tissues.	Cole et al.32, Chong-Seng et al.33
	Brown Band Disease	Acanthaster planci	Philaster guamensis	Feeding scars of crown-of-thrones starfish became the origin of BrB infections	Nugues & Bak30, Katz et al.31
Corallivore not found to transmit disease in controlled experiments	Black Band Disease	Chaetodon capistratus	Bacterial consortium	Feeding behaviour of the fish did not increase Phormidium corallyticum transmission	Aeby & Santavy34
	White Band Disease	Coralliophila caribaea	Vibrio and Rickettsiales	C. caribaea feeding behaviour did not transmit WBD in aquarium-based infection experiment	Gignoux-Wolfsohn et al.41
	White Syndrome	Cyamo melanodactylus	Unknown	Transplanting crabs from infected colonies onto healthy corals does not result in disease transmission	Pollock et al.45
	Brown Band Disease	Chaetodon aureofasciatus	Philaster guamensis	The fish neither aided nor hindered the transmission of BrB from infected to uninfected corals	Nicolet et al.28