Densovirus named top suspect in devastating sea star wasting disease
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
Since 2013, millions of sea stars native to the Pacific coast of North America from Baja California to southern Alaska have succumbed to a mysterious wasting disease in which their limbs pull away from their bodies and their organs exude through their skin; a disease researchers say could trigger an unprecedented ecological upheaval under the waves.