ArticleNature ecology & evolution2025
Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease.
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- Grounding microbial conservation in ecological principles.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- A Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Sunflower Sea Star Transcriptomic Responses to Challenge With Sea Star Wasting Disease Tissue Homogenates.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Conspecific mortality and resource availability drive a trait-mediated cascade by modifying sea urchin grazing behavior.Oecologia · 2026Article
- Reply to: A case definition with microscopy would help establish Vibrio as a cause of sea star wasting disease.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Microbe Profile:Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2026Review
- Lighting the way: how the squid-Vibrio model can inform thermal impacts on symbiotic dynamics.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Review
- Eelgrass microbiome and disease dynamics under field and lab heat stress.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Microbial communities experienced during early development shape the host immune system and epigenome.iScience · 2025Article
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Abstract
More than 10 years following the onset of the sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic, affecting over 20 asteroid species from Mexico to Alaska, the causative agent has been elusive. SSWD killed billions of the most susceptible species, sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides), initiating a trophic cascade involving unchecked urchin population growth and the widespread loss of kelp forests. Identifying the causative agent underpins the development of recovery strategies. Here we induced disease and subsequent mortality in exposure experiments using tissue extracts, coelomic fluid and effluent water from wasting sunflower sea stars, with no mortality in controls. Deep sequencing of diseased sea star coelomic fluid samples from experiments and field outbreaks revealed a dominant proportion of reads assigned to the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida. Fulfilling Koch's postulates, V. pectenicida strain FHCF-3, cultured from the coelomic fluid of a diseased sunflower sea star, caused disease and mortality in exposed sunflower sea stars, demonstrating that it is a causative agent of SSWD. This discovery will enable recovery efforts for sea stars and the ecosystems affected by their decline by facilitating culture-based experimental research and broad-scale screening for pathogen presence and abundance in the laboratory and field.
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