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  • The rising tide of ocean diseases: unsolved problems and research priorities

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    Author(s)
    Harvell, D
    Aronson, R
    Baron, N
    Connell, J
    Dobson, A
    Ellner, S
    Gerber, L
    Kim, K
    Kuris, A
    McCallum, H
    Lafferty, K
    McKay, B
    Porter, J
    Pascual, M
    Smith, G
    Sutherland, K
    Ward, J
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McCallum, Hamish
    Year published
    2004
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    Abstract
    New studies have detected a rising number of reports of diseases in marine organisms such as corals, molluscs, turtles, mammals, and echinoderms over the past three decades. Despite the increasing disease load, microbiological, molecular, and theoretical tools for managing disease in the world's oceans are underdeveloped. Review of the new developments in the study of these diseases identifies five major unsolved problems and priorities for future research: (1) detecting origins and reservoirs for marine diseases and tracing the flow of some new pathogens from land to sea; (2) documenting the longevity and host range ...
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    New studies have detected a rising number of reports of diseases in marine organisms such as corals, molluscs, turtles, mammals, and echinoderms over the past three decades. Despite the increasing disease load, microbiological, molecular, and theoretical tools for managing disease in the world's oceans are underdeveloped. Review of the new developments in the study of these diseases identifies five major unsolved problems and priorities for future research: (1) detecting origins and reservoirs for marine diseases and tracing the flow of some new pathogens from land to sea; (2) documenting the longevity and host range of infectious stages; (3) evaluating the effect of greater taxonomic diversity of marine relative to terrestrial hosts and pathogens; (4) pinpointing the facilitating role of anthropogenic agents as incubators and conveyors of marine pathogens; (5) adapting epidemiological models to analysis of marine disease.
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    Journal Title
    Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
    Volume
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0375:TRTOOD]2.0.CO;2
    Copyright Statement
    © 2004 Ecological Society of America. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/58083
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