Global spread of microorganisms by ships

By G. Ruiz, Tonya K. Rawlings, F. Dobbs, L. Drake, T. Mullady, A. Huq, R. Colwell. Nature, 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. James T. Carlton
2. H. MacIsaac
3. Susan L. Williams
4. G. Ruiz
5. Julian D. Olden
6. E. Grosholz
7. M. Wonham
8. P. Fofonoff

In Molecular Biology

1. E. Sala
2. D. Booth
3. Nancy Knowlton
4. G. Ruiz
5. Robert Poulin
6. James T. Carlton
7. E. Johnston
8. W. Johnson

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Robert Poulin
2. James T. Carlton
3. Susan L. Williams

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• Discovery of the first known benthic invasive species in the Southern Ocean: the North Atlantic spider crab Hyas araneus found in the Antarctic Peninsula (2004, background): “…aquaculture industries (Quayle 1964, Hanna 1966, Aron & Smith 1971, Jones 1972, Carlton 1975, Por 1978, 1990, Bourne 1979, Forster & Willan 1979, Andrews 1980, Zibrowius 1983, 1992, Sindermann 1991, Ryan & Moloney 1993, Ruiz et al. 2000, Wasson et al. 2001, Wonham et al. 2001, Barnes 2002a, 2002b).”
• Bridging Troubled Waters: Biological Invasions, Transoceanic Shipping, and the Laurentian Great Lakes (2004, background): “Impacts to socioeconomic sectors can also be significant and include transmission of pathogenic NIS to humans and wildlife (McCarthy and Khambaty 1994, Dalmazzone 2000, Hall and Mills 2000, Pimentel et al. 2000, Ruiz et al. 2000).”
• Marine invasion history and vector analysis of California: a hotspot for western North America (2011, background): “Because there are currently few restrictions on marine species imports to the United States, or across state boundaries, live trade may be a source of increasing propagule supply and established populations for California and western North America.”
• Biotic homogenization: a new research agenda for conservation biogeography (2006, background): “…of wildlife for recreation purposes, biological control, and inadvertent releases from aquaculture and horticulture activities (e.g. Courtenay & Stauffer, 1990; Carlton & Geller, 1993; Ludwig & Leitch, 1996; Ruiz et al., 2000; Naylor et al., 2001; Reichard & White, 2001; Drake & Lodge, 2004).”
• Trends in marine biological invasions at local and regional scales: the Northeast Pacific Ocean as a model system (2005, methodology): “Sampling methods, habitats, and geographic and taxonomic specialties of the original authors can all affect invasion record rates (e.g., Ruiz et al. 2000a).”
• Biological invaders are threats to human health: an overview (2014, background): “Ballast waters are important for the epidemiology of waterborne diseases, such as Vibrio cholerae (RUIZ et al. 2000).”
• Managing Multiple Vectors for Marine Invasions in an Increasingly Connected World (2013, background): “…(Kappel 2005), alteration of food webs (Nichols et al. 1990, Oguz et al. 2008), habitat modifications that affect community structure and function (Neira et al. 2006, Sousa et al. 2009), and the delivery of toxic microorganisms of concern for sea life and human health (Ruiz et al. 2000).”
• Distinguishing disease impacts from larval supply effects in a lobster fishery collapse (2009, background): “Depletion, disease and degradation of marine ecosystems is on the rise world-wide (Hughes 1994, Ruiz et al. 2000, Jackson et al. 2001, Harvell et al. 2002), but distinguishing among the various factors contributing to the fate of even a single population can be especially problematic in the marine…”
• Genetic adaptation of bacteria to halogenated aliphatic compounds: The recruitment and distribution of dehalogenase genes (2001, background): “(64) have suggested that the global movement of ballast water by ships creates a longdistance dispersal mechanism for human pathogens.”
• Potential Invasion of Microorganisms and Pathogens via ‘Interior Hull Fouling’: Biofilms Inside Ballast Water Tanks (2005, background): “…agent of human cholera, Vibrio cholerae, was found in ballast water of ships arriving at ports in Chesapeake Bay (Ruiz et al. 2000) and the North American Great Lakes (Knight et al. 1999; Zo et al. 1999), including V. cholerae O1 or O139, the two epidemic-causing serotypes (Ruiz et al. 2000).”