Sea Star Wasting Syndrome | MARINe - UCSC
2025年1月16日 · Sea stars along much of the North American Pacific coast experienced a massive die-off in 2013/14 due to a mysterious wasting syndrome. The disease, called “sea star wasting syndrome” (SSWS) has persisted at low levels in …
Sea star wasting disease - Wikipedia
Sea star wasting disease or starfish wasting syndrome is a disease of starfish and several other echinoderms that appears sporadically, causing mass mortality of those affected. [1] There are approximately 40 species of sea stars that have been affected by this disease.
Sea Star Wasting Syndrome - U.S. National Park Service
2023年7月19日 · This mortality event impacted 20 species of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska and decimated many sea star populations across the northern Gulf of Alaska. Symptoms of sea star wasting syndrome include abnormally twisted arms, white lesions, deflation of arms and body, arm loss, and body disintegration.
Sea Star Wasting Disease | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
Sea stars are dying off at dramatic rates across the West Coast from Baja California in Mexico to Alaska. The wasting disease that is affecting sea stars also is not specific to one species: more than 20 sea star species have been affected so far.
Meet the Tiny Killer Causing Millions of Sea Stars to Waste Away
2014年11月17日 · Despite the magnitude of the loss, no one knew what was behind the condition, known as sea-star wasting disease. Now a culprit has finally been identified: a virus that has been targeting...
These Sea Stars Are Literally Wasting Away—but They May Soon …
Between 2013 and 2017, 90 percent of the sunflower sea star population was wiped out from a disease called Sea Star Wasting Syndrome. Brocken Inaglory via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA...
Virus Calculated as Culprit Killing Sea Stars
A prime suspect has been identified as a probable cause of the "Sea Star Wasting Disease," a mysterious epidemic that has been killing these animals in droves along the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Coast.
Melting away: The fight against Sea Star Wasting Disease
2024年7月10日 · Across the Pacific Northwest, sea stars are melting at an astonishing rate as a result of a deadly disease — find out what researchers are doing and how you can help study the issue. An ochre star (Pisaster ochraceus) captured off the California coast shows potential early signs of Sea Star Wasting Disease. (Photo: Marco Mazza)
Signs of hope, and a prime suspect, in sea star wasting disease
2015年1月24日 · Researchers dubbed the phenomenon “sea star wasting syndrome.” Last month, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they termed it “the largest known marine wildlife epizootic” ever seen.
Sunflower Sea Star Wasting Syndrome Pandemic - NOAA Fisheries
Arm tips curl, bend, then break off – and may crawl away! Causes, impacts, triggers and research on Sea Star Wasting Syndrome in Pacific Ocean waters.