A garden of healthy, orange-coloured Eunicella verrucosa (sea fans) providing habitat for fish off Plymouth in the UK. Photographer: Sally Sharrock It’s great that you’re having a Microbial Week on your blog; makes for a change from those pesky charismatic invertebrates hogging all the lime-light! Its good timing too, as we’ve just been able . . . → Read More: Cold-water Coral Disease By Jason Hall-Spencer & Colin Munn*