Infectious outbreaks are the foremost global public health concern, challenging the current
healthcare system, which claims millions of lives annually. The most crucial way to control …

Marine pathogens present serious challenges to aquaculture, fisheries productivity, and
marine conservation requiring novel solutions to identify, control, and mitigate their effects …

Rahnella aquatilis as an emerging pathogen can cause bacterial enteritis in cyprinid fish
such as crucian carp Carassius auratus. Currently, the characterisation of immune function …

Located in the eastern tropical Pacific, the Galápagos Islands are an oceanic insular
ecosystem subject to strong environmental variability driven by local and regional …

The Galapagos Islands inspired the theory of evolution by means of natural selection; now in
the Anthropocene, the Galapagos represent an important natural laboratory to understand …

Climatic variability changes ocean productivity and generates systematic cascading effects
in marine food webs. Studying the feeding ecology of top predators, such as sharks, can …

The incidence of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) has increased in wildlife populations
in recent years and is expected to continue to increase with global environmental change …

Rahnella aquatilis is widely recognized as an opportunistic pathogen of fish, but molecular
detection and diagnostic techniques for it remain to be developed. In a previous study, we …

The Galapagos archipelago's unique reef biodiversity and fish distribution patterns are well
documented. However, reef ecosystem vulnerability to losing functional diversity and the …

Sea stars (class Asteroidea) can play powerful and wide-ranging roles as consumers of
algae and other prey in benthic ecosystems worldwide. In the Galápagos rocky subtidal …