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The bald-sea-urchin disease: a biopathological approach

Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen volume 37, pages 217–224 (1984)Cite this article

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Individuals of several species of European regular echinoids are affected by a spectacular disease that causes conspicuous lesions on the echinoid body surface. It is a communicable non-specific disease that produces loss of appendages and necrosis of dermal and skeletal tissues. Preliminary investigations indicate that the pathogen is not an alga but could be a bacteria.

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  1. Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium

    P. Maes & M. Jangoux

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Maes, P., Jangoux, M. The bald-sea-urchin disease: a biopathological approach. Helgolander Meeresunters 37, 217–224 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01989306

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