Coral reefs globally are increasingly impacted by climate change. High temperature and p
CO2 levels disrupt multiple physiological and biochemical pathways in marine organisms …

Sea star wasting—marked in a variety of sea star species as varying degrees of skin lesions
followed by disintegration—recently caused one of the largest marine die-offs ever recorded …

Antibiotic contamination in the marine environment forms an emerging threat to marine
ecosystems. This study aimed to compare the gut and coelomic microbiota of Stichopus …

Microbes play a critical role in the development and health of marine invertebrates, though
microbial dynamics across life stages and host generations remain poorly understood in …

SYTO 9 is a fluorescent nucleic acid stain that is widely used in microbiology, particularly for
fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry analyzes. Fluorimetry-based analysis, ie …

Coelomic fluid surrounds the internal organs of asteroid echinoderms (asteroids, otherwise
known as sea stars or starfish) and plays an essential role in the immune system, as well as …

Sea stars are keystone species and their mass die-offs due to sea star wasting disease
(SSWD) impact marine communities and have fueled recent interest in the microbiome of …

Marine invertebrate mass mortality events (MMEs) threaten biodiversity and have the
potential to catastrophically alter ecosystem structure. A proximal question around acute …

Beginning in 2013, sea stars throughout the Eastern North Pacific were decimated by
wasting disease, also known as “asteroid idiopathic wasting syndrome”(AIWS) due to its …

Marine animals in the wild are often difficult to access, so they are studied in captivity.
However, the implicit assumption that physiological processes of animals in artificial …