Sea Star Wasting Disease in Asterias forbesi along the Atlantic Coast of North America

Caitlin Bucci; Madison Francoeur; Jillon McGreal; Roxanna Smolowitz; Vanesa Zazueta-Novoa; Gary M. Wessel; Marta Gomez-Chiarri

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188523

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Sea Star Wasting Disease in Asterias forbesi along the Atlantic Coast of North America

Caitlin Bucci,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Madison Francoeur,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Jillon McGreal,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Roxanna Smolowitz,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and Marine Biology, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Vanesa Zazueta-Novoa,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Gary M. Wessel,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Marta Gomez-Chiarri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: gomezchi@uri.edu

Affiliation Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2576-9612

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Sea Star Wasting Disease in Asterias forbesi along the Atlantic Coast of North America

Caitlin Bucci,
Madison Francoeur,
Jillon McGreal,
Roxanna Smolowitz,
Vanesa Zazueta-Novoa,
Gary M. Wessel,
Marta Gomez-Chiarri

Published: December 11, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188523

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