Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014 Sea stars inhabiting the Northeast Pacific Coast have recently experienced an extensive outbreak of wasting disease, leading to their degradation and disappearance from many coastal areas.
Hewson I +24 more
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Large-scale impacts of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) on intertidal sea stars and implications for recovery. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 Disease outbreaks can have substantial impacts on wild populations, but the often patchy or anecdotal evidence of these impacts impedes our ability to understand outbreak dynamics.
Miner CM +14 more
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Decreased Temperature Facilitates Short-Term Sea Star Wasting Disease Survival in the Keystone Intertidal Sea Star Pisaster ochraceus. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 An extensive 2013 mass mortality event along the West Coast of North America due to Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) has affected at least 20 species of sea stars. Among environmental factors potentially contributing to the timing of the current outbreak,
Kohl AW, McClure TI, Miner BG.
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Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Pycnopodia helianthoides (Asteroidea) Affected by Sea Star Wasting Disease. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) describes a suite of symptoms reported in asteroids of the North American Pacific Coast. We performed a metatranscriptomic survey of asymptomatic and symptomatic sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) body wall tissues ...
Gudenkauf BM, Hewson I.
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A Review of Asteroid Biology in the Context of Sea Star Wasting: Possible Causes and Consequences. [PDF]
Biol Bull, 2022 Sea star wasting—marked in a variety of sea star species as varying degrees of skin lesions followed by disintegration— recently caused one of the largest marine die-offs ever recorded on the west coast of North America, killing billions of sea stars ...
Oulhen N +16 more
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Sea stars resist wasting through active immune and collagen systems. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Epidemics are becoming more common and severe, however, pinpointing the causes can be challenging, particularly in marine environments. The cause of sea star wasting (SSW) disease, the ongoing, largest known panzootic of marine wildlife, is unresolved.
Pespeni MH, Lloyd MM.
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A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Sunflower Sea Star Transcriptomic Responses to Challenge With Sea Star Wasting Disease Tissue Homogenates. [PDF]
Ecol EvolSea star wasting disease (SSWD) has impacted over twenty sea star species along the Northeast Pacific Coast, with some seemingly more susceptible than others.
Crandall G +7 more
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Correction: 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 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153994.].
Menge BA +5 more
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Two decades of change in sea star abundance at a subtidal site in Puget Sound, Washington. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Long-term datasets can reveal otherwise undetectable ecological trends, illuminating the historical context of contemporary ecosystem states. We used two decades (1997-2019) of scientific trawling data from a subtidal, benthic site in Puget Sound ...
Casendino HR +4 more
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Investigating the Complex Association Between Viral Ecology, Environment, and Northeast Pacific Sea Star Wasting [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) describes a suite of disease signs that affected >20 species of asteroid since 2013 along a broad geographic range from the Alaska Peninsula to Baja California.
Ian Hewson +7 more
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