Dataset: Data describing Tethered PaV1 infected juvenile lobsters introduced to occupied wild dens in the south-central Florida Bay (Lobster disease connectivity project)

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedVersion 2015-04-13 (2015-04-13)Dataset Type:Unknown

Principal Investigator: Mark Butler (Old Dominion University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Donald Behringer (University of Florida)

Co-Principal Investigator: Claire B. Paris-Limouzy (University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science)

Co-Principal Investigator: Jeffery Shields (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Connectivity of disease in marine Ecosystems: multi-scale dynamics of a viral disease infecting caribbean spiny lobster (Lobster disease connectivity)

Field experiment in which uninfected or PaV1-infected tethered juvenile lobsters were introduced into dens with natural aggregations of lobsters whose abundance was again observed 24 hrs later.

Related References:

Methods and results appear in the following publication: Butler, M.J. IV, D.C. Behringer Jr., T.W. Dolan III, J. Moss, and J.D. Shields. (in press, 04/2015) Behavioral immunity suppresses an epizootic in Caribbean lobsters. PLOS ONE.


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