TABLE 1.
Bacterial isolates used in this study.
| Strains | Description | Citation |
| V. coralliilyticus ATCC BAA-450 | Type strain; coral pathogen; isolated from reef near Zanzibar. | Ben-Haim and Rosenberg, 2002 |
| V. coralliilyticus OCN008 | Coral pathogen; isolated from a reef in Kāne‘ohe Bay, HI, United States. | Ushijima et al., 2014a |
| V. coralliilyticus OCN014 | Coral pathogen; isolated from a reef near Palmyra Atoll. | Ushijima et al., 2016 |
| V. coralliilyticus RE22 | Oyster larvae pathogen; isolated from hatchery at Netarts Bay, OR, United States. | Estes et al., 2004 |
| V. coralliilyticus RE98 | Oyster larvae pathogen; isolated from hatchery at Netarts Bay, OR, United States. | Estes et al., 2004 |
| V. coralliilyticus OfT6-17 | From a transmission using diseased M. cavernosa from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. | This study |
| V. coralliilyticus OfT6-21 | From a transmission using diseased M. cavernosa from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. | This study |
| V. coralliilyticus OfT7-21 | From a transmission using diseased M. cavernosa from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. | This study |
| V. coralliilyticus MmMcT2-4 | From a transmission using disease M. meandrites from the FL Keys. | This study |
| Vibrio sp. McD22-P3 | From a diseased M. cavernosa with acute tissue loss collected from the FL Keys; non-coralliilyticus control bacterium. | This study |
| Pseudoalteromonas sp. McH1-7 | Non-pathogenic bacterial control isolated from a healthy M. cavernosa fragment; control bacterium for infection experiments. | This study |
| Mutant strains | ||
| OCN008 ΔfliG | Aflagellate mutant with a deletion of fliG2; flagellum protein; control bacterium for motility experiments. | Ushijima and Häse, 2018 |
| OCN008 ΔvcpR | Mutant with a deletion of vcpR; quorum sensing regulator; control bacterium for biofilm assays. | Guillemette et al., 2020 |
| OCN008 ΔvcpAB | Mutant with deletions of vcpA and vcpB; zinc-metalloprotease; control bacterium for protease assays and VcpA immunoassays. | Guillemette et al., 2020 |