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Sci Adv 2023 Apr 21;916:eadh5478. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5478.
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Mystery solved? Disease detectives identify the cause of a mass die-off in the sea.

Vega Thurber R , Hay M .


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A mass sea urchin die-off in the Caribbean Sea in the 1980s resulted from a single-cell protist called a scuticociliate.

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