ABSTRACT During the past 2–3 decades, the spatiotemporal distribution of Mytilus spp. in
coastal waters of the North Atlantic has changed considerably. In general, reduced …

Microsporidian diversity is vast. There is a renewed drive to understand how microsporidian
pathological, genomic, and ecological traits relate to their phylogeny. We comprehensively …

Drivers of marine disease outbreaks are poorly understood in spite of their growing impact.
We present here results from a unique case study examining how cockles Cerastoderma …

In 2014, a high and unusual mass mortality of mussels occurred in several important
production areas along the French coasts of the Atlantic and English Channel. In the first …

Metatranscriptomics has emerged as a very useful technology for the study of microbiomes
from RNA-seq reads. This method provides additional information compared to the …

In the fifty years since the introduction of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas and the first
reports of the parasites Marteilia refringens and Bonamia ostreae in European waters …

In the last decade, declines in the population of wild blue mussels Mytilus edulis in the
Tamar estuary (United Kingdom) have been noted. In archived samples collected from 2013 …

Although research into the ecology and impacts of invasive species is prevalent, there are
knowledge gaps relating to the role of invasive species in parasite transmission. This work …

Microbial pollution in marine environments is one of the critical issues with regard to the
sanitary status of recreational activities and seafood harvesting due to a potential …

Diseases of bivalve molluscs caused by paramyxid parasites of the genus Marteilia have
been linked to mass mortalities and the collapse of commercially important shellfish …