Sea Star Wasting Disease in Asterias forbesi along the Atlantic Coast of North America. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 As keystone species, sea stars serve to maintain biodiversity and species distribution through trophic level interactions in marine ecosystems. Recently, Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) has caused widespread mass mortality in several sea star species ...
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Sea star wasting disease demography and etiology in the brooding sea star Leptasterias spp. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) describes a suite of disease signs believed to have led to catastrophic die-offs in many asteroid species, beginning in 2013. While most studies have focused on large, easily visible sea stars with widely-dispersing larvae,
Jaffe N, Eberl R, Bucholz J, Cohen CS.
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Up in Arms: Immune and Nervous System Response to Sea Star Wasting Disease. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Echinoderms, positioned taxonomically at the base of deuterostomes, provide an important system for the study of the evolution of the immune system.
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Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Sea star wasting disease devastated intertidal sea star populations from Mexico to Alaska between 2013-15, but little detail is known about its impacts to subtidal species. We assessed the impacts of sea star wasting disease in the Salish Sea, a Canadian
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Sea star wasting (SSW) disease, a massive and ongoing epidemic with unknown cause(s), has led to the rapid death and decimation of sea star populations with cascading ecological consequences.
Melissa Pespeni
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Evidence That Microorganisms at the Animal-Water Interface Drive Sea Star Wasting Disease. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2020 Sea star wasting (SSW) disease describes a condition affecting asteroids that resulted in significant Northeastern Pacific population decline following a mass mortality event in 2013. The etiology of SSW is unresolved.
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Virome Variation during Sea Star Wasting Disease Progression in Pisaster ochraceus (Asteroidea, Echinodermata). [PDF]
Viruses, 2020 Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) is a condition that has affected asteroids for over 120 years, yet mechanistic understanding of this wasting etiology remains elusive.
Hewson I, Aquino CA, DeRito CM.
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What doesn't kill them makes them stronger: an association between elongation factor 1-α overdominance in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus and "sea star wasting disease". [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 In recent years, a massive mortality event has killed millions of sea stars, of many different species, along the Pacific coast of North America. This disease event, known as ‘sea star wasting disease’ (SSWD), is linked to viral infection.
Wares JP, Schiebelhut LM.
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Coelomic Fluid Evaluation in Pisaster ochraceus Affected by Sea Star Wasting Syndrome: Evidence of Osmodysregulation, Calcium Homeostasis Derangement, and Coelomocyte Responses. [PDF]
Front Vet Sci, 2020 Sea Star Wasting Syndrome (SSWS) is one of the largest marine wildlife die-offs ever recorded, killing millions of sea stars from more than 20 Asteroid species from Alaska to Mexico from 2013 to 2015 from yet undetermined cause(s).
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Sea Star Wasting Disease in the Keystone Predator Pisaster ochraceus in Oregon: Insights into Differential Population Impacts, Recovery, Predation Rate, and Temperature Effects from Long-Term Research. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) first appeared in Oregon in April 2014, and by June had spread to most of the coast. Although delayed compared to areas to the north and south, SSWD was initially most intense in north and central Oregon and spread ...
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