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SUBMITTER: Cabanellas-Reboredo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6746856 | biostudies-other | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cabanellas-Reboredo Miguel M Vázquez-Luis Maite M Mourre Baptiste B Álvarez Elvira E Deudero Salud S Amores Ángel Á Addis Piero P Ballesteros Enric E Barrajón Agustín A Coppa Stefania S García-March José Rafael JR Giacobbe Salvatore S Casalduero Francisca Giménez FG Hadjioannou Louis L Jiménez-Gutiérrez Santiago V SV Katsanevakis Stelios S Kersting Diego D Mačić Vesna V Mavrič Borut B Patti Francesco Paolo FP Planes Serge S Prado Patricia P Sánchez Jordi J Tena-Medialdea José J de Vaugelas Jean J Vicente Nardo N Belkhamssa Fatima Zohra FZ Zupan Ivan I Hendriks Iris E IE
Scientific reports 20190916 1
A mass mortality event is devastating the populations of the endemic bivalve Pinna nobilis in the Mediterranean Sea from early autumn 2016. A newly described Haplosporidian endoparasite (Haplosporidium pinnae) is the most probable cause of this ecological catastrophe placing one of the largest bivalves of the world on the brink of extinction. As a pivotal step towards Pinna nobilis conservation, this contribution combines scientists and citizens' data to address the fast- and vast-dispersion and ...[more]