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Effects of wasting disease on sea star populations in southern California: Variations over a 40-year period
2025-08-02
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Sea star wasting disease has been described for asteroid populations from many parts of the world and for numerous species. The causative agents are generally unknown. However, within the Southern California Bight, a Vibrio bacterium appears to have been the cause of wasting disease in the 1980s, and probably the 1990s, during warm water episodes associated with El Ninos. Although a densovirus...
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- Literature Corpus work
- daf6096c-2cef-57fa-b4ed-e6b91ca89c5e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.07.30.667779
