The sea urchin Diadema setosum before (left) and after (right) mortality. The white skeleton is exposed following tissue disintegration and loss of spines. An international team of researchers ...

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The sea urchin Diadema setosum before (left) and after (right) mortality. The white skeleton is exposed following tissue disintegration and loss of spines. Credit: Tel Aviv University. The ...

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In 1983, a mysterious disease wiped out most of the Diadema sea urchins in the Caribbean. Unchecked, the algae there proliferated, blocking sunlight from the coral, and the region shifted from a ...

Using molecular-genetic tools, they successfully identified the pathogen responsible for the 2023 outbreaks: a scuticociliate parasite – the same agent behind the catastrophic decline of Diadema ...