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Vibrio infections triggering mass mortality events in a warming Mediterranean Sea.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Jul 2010
Vezzulli Luigi, Previati Monica, Pruzzo Carla, Marchese Anna, Bourne David G, Cerrano Carlo
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Mass mortality events of benthic invertebrates in the temperate north-western (NW) Mediterranean Sea have been observed in recent seasons. A 16 month in situ study in the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea) demonstrated that the occurrence of Paramuricea clavata mortality episodes were concomitant to a condition of prolonged high sea surface temperatures, low chlorophyll concentrations and the presence of...
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