[HTML][HTML] Evidence that microorganisms at the animal-water interface drive sea star wasting disease

CA Aquino, RM Besemer, CM DeRito… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sea star wasting (SSW) disease describes a condition affecting asteroids that resulted in
significant Northeastern Pacific population decline following a mass mortality event in 2013 …

[HTML][HTML] Virome Variation during Sea Star Wasting Disease Progression in Pisaster ochraceus (Asteroidea, Echinodermata)

I Hewson, CA Aquino, CM DeRito - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) is a condition that has affected asteroids for over 120
years, yet mechanistic understanding of this wasting etiology remains elusive. We …

[HTML][HTML] An unconventional flavivirus and other RNA viruses in the sea cucumber (Holothuroidea; Echinodermata) virome

I Hewson, MR Johnson, IR Tibbetts - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea; Echinodermata) are ecologically significant constituents of
benthic marine habitats. We surveilled RNA viruses inhabiting eight species (representing …

[HTML][HTML] Surveillance of densoviruses and mesomycetozoans inhabiting grossly normal tissues of three Aotearoa New Zealand asteroid species

I Hewson, MA Sewell - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Asteroid wasting events and mass mortality have occurred for over a century. We currently
lack a fundamental understanding of the microbial ecology of asteroid disease, with disease …

Development of diagnostic assays for differentiation of atypical Aeromonas salmonicida vapA type V and type VI in ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta, Ascanius)

A Papadopoulou, A Davie, SJ Monaghan… - Journal of Fish …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aeromonas salmonicida (As) is a highly heterogeneous bacterial species, and strains' host
specificity has been reported. Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta Ascanius, 1767) is susceptible …

Evidence for boundary layer oxygen diffusion limitation as a key driver of asteroid wasting

CA Aquino, RM Besemer, CM DeRito, J Kocian… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Sea star wasting (SSW) disease describes a condition affecting asteroids that resulted in
significant Northeastern Pacific population decline following a mass mortality event in 2013 …

Surveillance of densoviruses and mesomycetozoans inhabiting grossly normal tissues of three New Zealand asteroid species

I Hewson, MA Sewell - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Asteroid wasting events and mass mortality have occurred for over a century. We currently
lack a fundamental understanding of the microbial ecology of asteroid disease, with disease …

Virome temporal variation during sea star wasting disease progression in Pisaster ochraceus (Asteroidea, Echinodermata)

I Hewson, CA Aquino, CM DeRito - 2020 - preprints.org
Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) is a condition that has affected asteroids for over 120
years, yet mechanistic understanding of wasting etiology remains elusive. We investigated …