Exploring the pathology of an epidermal disease affecting a circum-Antarctic sea star

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Núñez-Pons, Laura, Work, Thierry M., Angulo-Preckler, Carlos, Moles, Juan, Avila, Conxita
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Austral; Deception Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6063859/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30054527; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29684-0

Over the past decade, unusual mortality outbreaks have decimated echinoderm populations over broad geographic regions, raising awareness globally of the importance of investigating such events. Echinoderms are key components of marine benthos for top-down and bottom-up regulations of plants and anim...