Devastating Transboundary Impacts of Sea Star Wasting Disease on Subtidal Asteroids.

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 / United States transboundary marine ecosyste...

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Main Authors: Diego Montecino-Latorre, Morgan E Eisenlord, Margaret Turner, Reyn Yoshioka, C Drew Harvell, Christy V Pattengill-Semmens, Janna D Nichols, Joseph K Gaydos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5082671?pdf=render