The mechanisms underlying seastar wasting disease #SSWD remain elusive, & this new preprint helps to fill this knowledge gap using data from a mosaic of infected & uninfected sunflower stars across Southeast Alaska to evaluate immune & microbial disruption. #Pycnopodia #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌊🧪🌎

A large sunflower sea star is crawling across an Aquarium tank, its body and arms halfway in frame. The underside is visible, lined by thousands of tiny tendrils called tube feet.

You know what day it is! (Tubesday!)

#Tubesday #Tubefeet #Echinoderms #SunflowerStar #Pycnopodia #OregonCoast #OregonCoastAquarium