Tracking the dispersion of a pathogen causing mass mortality in the pen shell Pinna nobilis

  1. Miguel Cabanellas-Reboredo 1
  2. Maite Vázquez-Luis 2
  3. Baptiste Mourre 3
  4. Elvira Álvarez 2
  5. Salud Deudero 2
  6. Ángel Amores 1
  7. Piero Addis 4
  8. Enric Ballesteros 5
  9. Agustín Barrajón
  10. Stefania Coppa 6
  11. José Rafa García-march 7
  12. Salvatore Giacobbe 8
  13. Francisca Giménez Casalduero 9
  14. Louis Hadjioannou 10
  15. Santiago V. Jiménez-gutiérrez 11
  16. Stelios Katsanevakis 12
  17. Diego Kersting 13
  18. Vesna Mačić 14
  19. Borut Mavrič 15
  20. Francesco Paolo Patti 16
  21. Serge Planes 17
  22. Patricia Prado
  23. Jordi Sánchez 18
  24. José Tena-medialdea 7
  25. Jean de Vaugelas 19
  26. Nardo Vicente 20
  27. Fatima Zohra Belkhamssa 21
  28. Ivan Zupan 22
  29. Iris E. Hendriks 1
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  1. 1 CSIC-UIB
  2. 2 Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
  3. 3 SOCIB
  4. 4 University of Cagliari
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    University of Cagliari

    Cagliari, Italia

    ROR https://ror.org/003109y17

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  5. 5 Centre D’estudis Avançats de Blanes
  6. 6 Cnr - Iamc
  7. 7 Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir
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    Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03d7a9c68

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  8. 8 University of Messina
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    University of Messina

    Mesina, Italia

    ROR https://ror.org/05ctdxz19

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  9. 9 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

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  10. 10 Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre
  11. 11 Instituto de Ecología Litoral
  12. 12 University of the Aegean
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    University of the Aegean

    Mitilene, Grecia

    ROR https://ror.org/03zsp3p94

    Geographic location of the organization University of the Aegean
  13. 13 Freie Universität Berlin
  14. 14 University of Montenegro
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    University of Montenegro

    Podgorica, Montenegro

    ROR https://ror.org/02drrjp49

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  15. 15 National Institute Of Biology Of Slovenia
  16. 16 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
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    Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

    Nápoles, Italia

    ROR https://ror.org/03v5jj203

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  17. 17 University of Perpignan
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    University of Perpignan

    Perpiñán, Francia

    ROR https://ror.org/03am2jy38

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  18. 18 Divulgació, Estudi i Conservació de L’entorn Natural
  19. 19 Nice Sophia Antipolis University
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    Nice Sophia Antipolis University

    Niza, Francia

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  20. 20 Aix-Marseille University
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    Aix-Marseille University

    Marsella, Francia

    ROR https://ror.org/035xkbk20

    Geographic location of the organization Aix-Marseille University
  21. 21 Université de Mostaganem
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    Université de Mostaganem

    Mostaganem, Argelia

    ROR https://ror.org/052r04325

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  22. 22 University of Zadar
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    University of Zadar

    Zadar, Croacia

    ROR https://ror.org/00t89vb53

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Book:
VII Jornades de Medi Ambient de les Illes Balears: Ponències i resums
  1. Pons, Guillem X. (coord.)
  2. Valle, Laura del (coord.)
  3. Vicens, Damià (coord.)
  4. Pinya, Samuel (coord.)
  5. McMinn, Miguel (coord.)
  6. Pomar, Francesc (coord.)

Publisher: Societat d'Història Natural de Balears

ISBN: 978-84-09-06632-2,  978-84-09-06632-2

Year of publication: 2018

Volume Title: VII Jornades de Medi Ambient de les Illes Balears

Volume: 1

Pages: 136-137

Congress: Jornades del Medi Ambient de les Illes Balears (7. 2018. Palma)

Type: Conference paper

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Abstract

A mass mortality event is devastating the populations of the endemic bivalve Pinna nobilis at Mediterranean Sea from early autumn 2016. A new Haplosporidian endoparàsit (Haplosporidium pinnae) is the cause of this ecological catastrophe placing one of the biggest bivalve of the world on the brink of the extinction. As a pivotal step towards Pinna nobilis conservation, this contribution combines scientists and citizens’ data to address the fast- and vastdispersion and prevalence outbreaks of the pathogen. Therefore, the potential role of the currents on parasite expansion was addressed by means of drift simulations of virtual particles in a high-resolution regional currents model. A generalized additive model was implemented to test if environmental factors could modulate the infection of Pinna nobilis populations. The results strongly suggest that parasite has probably dispersed regionally by surface currents, and its virulence seems to be closely related to temperatures above 13.5ºC and with a salinity range between 36.5-39.7 psu. The most likely spread of parasite along the Mediterranean basin associated to scattered survival spots and resistant individuals point to a challenging scenario for the conservation of the emblematic Pinna nobilis, which requires fast and strategic managements measures accounting with the essential role of citizens.

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