💨 Abstract
Scientists have identified a bacterium, Vibrio pectenicida, as the cause of a decade-long sea star wasting disease that killed over 5 billion sea stars on North America's Pacific coast. The disease, which turns healthy sea stars into a gruesome state of lesioned, falling-off arms, started in 2013 and devastated numerous species.
Courtesy: WTOP Staff
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