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,
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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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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.
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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.
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Reciprocal abundance shifts of the intertidal sea stars, Evasterias troschelii and Pisaster ochraceus , following sea star wasting disease [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019 Disease emergence occurs within the context of ecological communities, and disease driven declines in host populations can lead to complex direct and indirect ecological effects. Varying effects of a single disease among multiple susceptible hosts could benefit relatively resistant species.
Sharon W. C. Kay +2 more
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Decimation by sea star wasting disease and rapid genetic change in a keystone species, Pisaster ochraceus [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 Significance Opportunities to study microevolution in wild populations are rare and challenging. Annual monitoring allowed us to capture both the prelude to and aftermath of one of the largest marine mass mortality events on record in a keystone marine species.
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Microbiome shifts with onset and progression of Sea Star Wasting Disease revealed through time course sampling [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 AbstractThe recent outbreak of Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) is one of the largest marine epizootics in history, but the host-associated microbial community changes specific to disease progression have not been characterized. Here, we sampled the microbiomes of ochre sea stars, Pisaster ochraceus, through time as animals stayed healthy or became sick
Melanie M. Lloyd, Melissa H. Pespeni
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Effects of temperature, season and locality on wasting disease in the keystone predatory sea star Pisaster ochraceus [PDF]
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2009 This study investigates wasting disease in the northeast Pacific keystone predatory sea star Pisaster ochraceus on the outer west coast of Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada).
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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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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.].
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