Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases

A Pfenning-Butterworth, LB Buckley… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

Standard ecological and molecular research methods and techniques for Labyrinthula spp.

BK Sullivan, DL Martin, RM Yoshioka… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Labyrinthula are unicellular protists occupying diverse spatial and functional niches,
including various roles in host and ecological function, fatty acid production, pandemic …

Deeper habitats and cooler temperatures moderate a climate-driven seagrass disease

OJ Graham, T Stephens… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Eelgrass creates critical coastal habitats worldwide and fulfills essential ecosystem functions
as a foundation seagrass. Climate warming and disease threaten eelgrass, causing mass …

High infectivity and waterborne transmission of seagrass wasting disease

ME Eisenlord, MV Agnew… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pathogen transmission pathways are fundamental to understanding the epidemiology of
infectious diseases yet are challenging to estimate in nature, particularly in the ocean …

Lessons learned from over thirty years of eelgrass restoration on the US West Coast

M Ward, K Beheshti - Ecosphere, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrass habitats, which provide essential ecosystem functions such as water quality
improvement, biodiversity support, ocean acidification amelioration, and sediment carbon …

Low‐Altitude UAV Imaging Accurately Quantifies Eelgrass Wasting Disease From Alaska to California

B Yang, TL Hawthorne, L Aoki… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Declines in eelgrass, an important and widespread coastal habitat, are associated with
wasting disease in recent outbreaks on the Pacific coast of North America. This study …

Manipulation of the seagrass‐associated microbiome reduces disease severity

OJ Graham, EM Adamczyk, S Schenk… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Host‐associated microbes influence host health and function and can be a first line of
defence against infections. While research increasingly shows that terrestrial plant …

The effect of warming on seagrass wasting disease depends on host genotypic identity and diversity

FR Schenck, K DuBois, MR Kardish, JJ Stachowicz… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature increases due to climate change have affected the distribution and severity of
diseases in natural systems, causing outbreaks that can destroy host populations. Host …

Metagenomic sequencing sheds light on microbes putatively associated with pneumonia-related fatalities of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

MB Prentice, MLJ Gilbertson, DJ Storm… - Microbial …, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
With emerging infectious disease outbreaks in human, domestic and wild animal
populations on the rise, improvements in pathogen characterization and surveillance are …

Predictable changes in eelgrass microbiomes with increasing wasting disease prevalence across 23 latitude in the northeastern pacific

DS Beatty, LR Aoki, B Rappazzo, C Bergman… - Msystems, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Predicting outcomes of marine disease outbreaks presents a challenge in the face of both
global and local stressors. Host-associated microbiomes may play important roles in …