Parasites thought only to infect tropical coral reefs have been discovered in a large variety of creatures in cold marine ecosystems along the Northeast Pacific, according to new research.
Parasites thought only to infect tropical coral reefs have been discovered in a large variety of creatures in cold marine ecosystems along the Northeast Pacific, according to new research from University of British Columbia botanists., greatly expands the range of corallicolids, suggesting the parasites infect a range of organisms related to coral, like sea anemones and other cold-water marine invertebrates, around the world.
Luck also had a bit to do with the discovery. After discovering corallicolids in tropical reefs in 2019, subsequent COVID travel restrictions essentially forced Dr. Keeling's team to cast their parasite nets closer to home -- initially at a dock on Galiano Island, one of the southern Gulf Islands off the coast of British Columbia.
"It's possible that Corallicolids have different effects depending on who they're infecting," says UBC researcher Morelia Trznadel, the first author of the paper."The parasite lineages we found in our study seem to 'jump' between hosts quite frequently, and while they've already been linked to poorer responses during coral bleaching, we don't know if they're equally harmful to all hosts.
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