As we battle against our own pandemic, sea stars are being killed in the millions by a horrible condition that melts them into a sickly goo.
"A changing climate is causing the ocean to warm and those rising sea water temperatures are putting more and more stress on marine ecosystems,""As a result of that stress, marine diseases have become more prevalent over the last few decades. Disease outbreaks cause changes in ecosystems' community structure and the age distribution within species. A lot of marine taxa have suffered severe declines in population because of outbreaks.
Burton."With little genetic variation to propel adaptation, we definitely have even more concerns regarding how this species of sea star will fare in future outbreaks." The researchers did however detect a couple of areas in the genome that may have some link to disease resistance, and strongly urge that these should be further investigated.
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