Mystery solved? Disease detectives identify the cause of a mass die-off in the sea.

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School of Biological Sciences and Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230, USA.

Published: April 2023


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A mass sea urchin die-off in the Caribbean Sea in the 1980s resulted from a single-cell protist called a scuticociliate.

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