2024-02-23 11:07:30
Previously, French scientists announced this phenomenon.
Biologists from St. Petersburg State University conducted a study on the coast of the Kola Peninsula. They identified a contagious form of cancer affecting mussel populations there. The results of the study were published in the journal Molecular Ecology.
Cancer is transmitted from sick individuals to healthy ones. Biologists have concluded that the current situation may threaten an epidemic.
As it turned out, mussels on Russian territory received the disease from mussels from the Pacific Ocean. The spread of the disease may have occurred through the Northern Sea Route on ships carrying diseased mussels.
On the Kola Peninsula, they will monitor the condition of shellfish so as not to miss a cancer epidemic among them. After all, mussels are a commercial species of animal.
Moreover, the epidemic can cover not only populations of farmed shellfish, but also wild ones in the sea.
Previously, in the scientific journal PRSB: Biological Sciences there was an article about contagious cancer in mussels in French ports. Scientists have seen favorable conditions for its spread due to the high density of shellfish populations on the one hand and the arrival of infected mussels on board ships.
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