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The "100 Lobsters" Project: A Cooperative Demonstration Project For Health Assessments Of Lobsters From Rhode Island, Jeffrey D. Shields, Kersten N. Wheeler, Ja Moss, B Somers, K Castro
The "100 Lobsters" Project: A Cooperative Demonstration Project For Health Assessments Of Lobsters From Rhode Island, Jeffrey D. Shields, Kersten N. Wheeler, Ja Moss, B Somers, K Castro
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The emergence of epizootic shell disease in the American lobster (Homarus americanus) has been devastating to the fishing industry in southern New England. In response, research was initiated to understand the roles of the environment, pathogens, and pollutants in the ecology and etiology of the disease. A comprehensive project was initiated in which tissues and hemolymph from 100 lobsters were collected from an endemic area of disease, Narragansett Bay, RI. The project has moved forward with the purpose of compiling, synthesizing, and propagating the findings from the "100 Lobsters" Project. The resulting tissue bank and Web-based data repository and instructional …
Histological Assessment Of The Lobster (Homarus Americanus) In The "100 Lobsters" Project, Jeffrey D. Shields, Kersten N. Wheeler, Ja Moss
Histological Assessment Of The Lobster (Homarus Americanus) In The "100 Lobsters" Project, Jeffrey D. Shields, Kersten N. Wheeler, Ja Moss
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The emergence of epizootic shell disease in the American lobster (Homarus americanus) has been devastating to the industry in the coastal waters of southern New England. A comprehensive assessment of the disease syndrome, known as the "100 Lobsters" Project, was initiated to examine health and physiological parameters among laboratories involved in the research on lobster shell disease. A histological study of the 100 lobsters was undertaken as part of that assessment. Tissues from 90 lobsters from Rhode Island and 19 lobsters from Maine were examined as a general health assessment of the 100 lobsters. Approximately half the lobsters from Rhode …
Dysbiosis In Epizootic Shell Disease Of The American Lobster (Homarus Americanus), Nj Meres, Cc Ajuzie, M Sikaroodi, M Vemulapalli, Jeffrey D. Shields, Pm Gillevet
Dysbiosis In Epizootic Shell Disease Of The American Lobster (Homarus Americanus), Nj Meres, Cc Ajuzie, M Sikaroodi, M Vemulapalli, Jeffrey D. Shields, Pm Gillevet
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Epizootic shell disease (ESD) in the American lobster ( Homarus americanus) is continuing to affect the southern New England lobster population, and the etiology of the disease has not been well defined. We hypothesized that a dysbiotic shift in the shell microbial biofilm played a key part in the etiology of the disease. We analyzed the community structure of the surface microflora of apparently healthy and diseased lobsters using multitag pyrosequencing to correlate the abundance of key taxa within the lesions. Discriminant analysis (DA) was used to identify taxa in the microbial community that were associated with diseased and healthy …