[Coral-List] Microbial cause of the black urchin Diadema disease in the Caribbean identified

[Judith Lang]

Hi Doug,

I appreciate your valuable service of informing us when newsworthy papers are published.  

Regrettably I must inform you that the focus feature you have referenced here without comment (Mystery solved…) features a false claim that the article (A scuticociliate…, also referenced below) had determined the causation of the huge, Diadema antillarum, mass mortality in the 1980s. Not so.

The scuticociliate article describes the collaborative research which enabled identification of the microeukaryote involved in a shorter-lived mass mortality of Diadema in 2022. 

Judy

Judith C Lang
AGRRA Scientific Coordinator
www.agrra.org

> On 21 Apr 2023, at 19:27, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> Mystery solved: disease detectives identify the cause of mass die-off in
> the sea
> 
> https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adh5478
> 
> open-access
> 
> A scuticociliate causes mass mortality of Diadema antillarum in the
> Caribbean Sea
> 
> https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adg3200
> 
> open-access
> 
> Cheers, Doug
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