Invertebrate herbivores influence seagrass wasting disease dynamics

OJ Graham, LR Aoki, CA Burge, CD Harvell - Ecology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Although invertebrate herbivores commonly impact terrestrial plant diseases by facilitating
transmission of plant pathogens and increasing host susceptibility to infection via wounding …

Seagrass wasting disease prevalence and lesion area increase with invertebrate grazing across the northeastern Pacific

LR Aoki, CJ Ritter, DS Beatty, LK Domke, GL Eckert… - Ecology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Disease is a key driver of community and ecosystem structure, especially when it strikes
foundation species. In the widespread marine foundation species eelgrass (Zostera marina) …

Body-size evolution in gastropods across the Plio-Pleistocene extinction in the western Atlantic

BM Anderson, E Petsios, J Behn, A Betz, WD Allmon… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The Plio-Pleistocene turnover event in the western Atlantic following the closure of the
Central American Seaway involved high rates of extinction for both gastropod and bivalve …