Thousands of starfish have died in a long tenth epidemic. Scientists say they now know why.

Scientists say that eventually resolved a magnitude of over 5 billion stars – often as starfish – off the Pacific Coast of North American long-term enchemin.

Starting in 2013, a mysterious grocery star To waste disease He raised a number of death from Mexico to Alaska. The epidemic spent more than 20 different types and continues today. The most beaten was the type called Seafish star Sunflowerwho lost about 90% of their population in five years of the outbreak.

“It is very difficult,” Marine Disease Encysa Gehman Khman Hakai Institute in British Columbia, Canada, who helped identify the cause.

Health Sea Stars’ holds adhesive arms with direct adherence, “he said. But the disease that spends from growing sores and” their arms fall. “

The suspect? The germs are also expanded shellfish, according to the publication of Monday in the Journal Nature in Coology and evolution.

Being acquired “to resolve a long question about the worst ocean,” says Rebecca Vegar’ist, the University California, Santa Barbara, who did not share in the study.

Sea stars often have five cubits and some types of sports in 24 arms. Count in color from a strong orange to orange tapestries, purple, brown and green.

“Symptoms of seabreaks that spend twisted arms, white sores, bodies and body, arm loss, and scattering,” said body separation. “They die of later or weeks.”

It took more than ten of the investigators to identify the cause of the disease, which consists of many false substances and twists and repent.

Early researching is a cause can be a virus, but it emerged that the scientists first focused on the poorest stars and are not associated with the disease, the Author of Hakai, a learning author.

Some attempted efforts are a real murder because researchers read the samples of dead marines that have no longer body fluids that can draw close to organs.

But the latest lesson includes detailed analysis of this liquid, called Coelomic fluid, where the bacterio vibrio pecturenica was found.

“It is very difficult to track the source of so many natural diseases, especially underwater,” the microbiologist Blakeh, the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, who had not participated in the study. He said the work of the group “is really wise and important.”

Now that scientists are aware of the cause, they have better shooting by intervening to help sea stars. International conservation Union lists Sunflower Sea Star as he is at higher risk.

Prentice said that scientists might check what left ocean stars – and they would be able to move them, or they will spread to exile to pay them later to lose their marine stars.

Research notes that Vibrio Bacteria are called “Microbial Barometer for climate change” because the types are very common in the heat of water temperatures. The authors say that the next phase of the study will better work better relationship between increased temperatures and marine stars to spend infections.

Scientists may also evaluate if other people have environmental infection, and if the treatments such as probiotics can help increase insecurity in the disease.

The work of such recovery is not only important in seabirds, but all the pacific icosystems because the healthy starfish gobblock Erchins is overweight, researchers say.

Sunflower Sea Stars “look at the innocent type when you see them, but they ate almost every thing that lives under the sea,” said Gehma. “They’re exciting.”

In many seafar, common seafarers – and increase around 95% of the forests in Kelp in North California within 10 years. These Kelp Forests provide food and environment for a variety of animals that put fish, oceans and symptoms.

Investigators hope that new findings will allow them to return the marine stars – and grow the kebles in the Kelp claim that Telber compared the “rainforests to sea.”