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The effect of warming on seagrass wasting disease depends on host genotypic identity and diversity.
Ecology - 1 Mar 2023
Schenck Forest R, DuBois Katherine, Kardish Melissa R, Stachowicz John J, Hughes A Randall
Abstract excerpt
Temperature increases due to climate change have affected the distribution and severity of diseases in natural systems, causing outbreaks that can destroy host populations. Host identity, diversity, and the associated microbiome can affect host responses to both infection and temperature, but little is known about how they could function as important mediators of disease in altered thermal environments. We...
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