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The Importance Of Long-Term Data Collection To Understand The Historical And Evolutionary Ecology Of Marine Diseases: The Eastern Oyster Disease System In The Usa, As A Case Study, Ryan Carnegie
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The epizootics in eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, of haplosporidiosis or “MSX” disease caused by Haplosporidium nelsoni, and perkinsosis or “dermo” disease caused by Perkinsus marinus, were two of the most significant marine disease events of the last century. Haplosporidium nelsoni, a protozoan parasite
native to Asian populations of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, emerged in Delaware Bay in 1957 and Chesapeake Bay in 1959 (Andrews,1962; Haskin et al., 1966), and in the decades that followed caused major mortality events
from the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA to Atlantic Canada. Perkinsus marinus is a native pathogen, also a protozoan, that had …
Polystyrene Microplastics Reduce Abundance Of Developing B Cells In Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Primary Cultures, Patty Zwollo, Fatima Quddos, Carey Bagdassarian, Meredith Evans Seeley, Robert Hale, Lauren Abderhalden
Polystyrene Microplastics Reduce Abundance Of Developing B Cells In Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Primary Cultures, Patty Zwollo, Fatima Quddos, Carey Bagdassarian, Meredith Evans Seeley, Robert Hale, Lauren Abderhalden
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Environmental microplastic pollution (including polystyrene, PS) may have detrimental effects on the health of aquatic organisms. Accumulation of PS microplastics has been reported to affect innate immune cells and inflammatory responses in fish. To date, knowledge on effects of microplastics on the antibody response is still very limited. Here, we investigated effects of small (0.8–20 μm) PS microplastics on the abundance of B lineage cells in primary cultures of developing immune cells from the anterior kidney of rainbow trout. Both purchased PS microbeads and PS microparticles generated from consumer products were used as microplastic sources. We first show that rainbow …