Precursors of Sea Star Wasting: Immune and Microbial Disruption During Initial Disease Outbreak in Southeast Alaska

Abstract excerpt

Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSW) has devastated sea star populations along the North American Pacific coast since 2013, yet the mechanisms of disease progression, particularly in natural environments, remain unclear. Here we integrate transcriptomic and microbial data from wild Pycnopodia helianthoides sampled across sites affected and unaffected by SSW in southeast Alaska during the initial outbreak recorded in th...

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• Antarctic Regions
• Epidermis
• Fungi
• Genes, Bacterial
• Genetic Variation
• Phenotype
• Principal Component Analysis
• RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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Literature Corpus work

fe5c3ac8-aa9c-5b49-bcbf-dc2d20f051fe

DOI

10.1101/2025.07.05.662347