Joseph K. Gaydos

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that the cause of the disease is transmissible from disease-affected animals to apparently healthy individuals, that the disease-causing agent is a virus-sized microorganism, and that the best candidate viral taxon, the sea star-associated densovirus (SSaDV), is in greater abundance in diseased than in healthy sea stars.

TL;DR: The common, predatory sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides), shown to be highly susceptible to sea star wasting disease, has been extirpated across most of its range as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Analysis of over 850 samples from 105 bottlenose dolphins and associated prey items were analyzed for algal toxins and provide strong evidence that brevetoxin was the causative agent involved in these bottlenOSE dolphin mortality events.

TL;DR: Severe depletion of sunflower sea stars in the Salish Sea support reports of major declines in this species from California to Alaska, raising concern for the conservation of this ecologically important subtidal predator.

TL;DR: In white-tailed deer, innate disease resistance may vary at the subspecies level and should this phenomenon occur in other species, these findings have major implications for managing wildlife populations, both endangered and non-endangered, using tools such as translocation and captive propagation.