Maya Groner, PhD

Publications

2024

• Kirk D, Straus S, Childs M, Harris M, Couper L, Davies TJ, Forbes C, Gehman A, Groner ML, Harley C, Lafferty K, Savage V, Skinner E, O’Connor M, Mordecai, M. 2024. Temperature impacts on dengue incidence are nonlinear and mediated by climatic and socioeconomic factors. PLoS Climate 3: e0000152.
• Salzer JE, Greer JB, Groner ML, MacKenzie AH, Gregg JL, Hershberger PK 2024. Elevated temperature increases disease progression and host response of Pacific herring to erythrocytic necrosis virus. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 36:45-56.

2023

• Groner ML, Bravo-Mendosa, ED, MacKenzie, AH, Gregg JL, Conway CM, Trochta JT, Hershberger PK. 2023. Temporal, environmental, and demographic correlates of Ichthyophonus sp. infections in mature Pacific herring populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science 80: 2342-2355.
• Venkataraman YR, Shore A, Dayal S, Lee J, Salimi, MA, Crandall G, Loeher MA, Stoops M, Swanger M, Van Alstyne KL, Fast M, Burge CA, Groner ML. 2023. Molecular and chemical characterization of host-pathogen interactions associated with eelgrass wasting disease. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1152647.

2022

• Agnew MV, Groner ML, Eisenlord, ME, Friedman CS, Burge CA. 2022. Pacific oysters are a sink and potential source of the eelgrass pathogen, Labyrinthula zosterae. Aquaculture Environment Interactions 14: 259-307.
• Groner ML, Hershberger PK, Fradkin SC, Conway CM, Hawthorn AC, Purcell MK. 2022. Evaluating the effect of nuclear inclusion X (NIX) infections on Pacific razor clam populations. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 151: 1-9.
• Meyers TM, Morris R, Jackson TM, Dissen JN, Slater LM, Groner ML, Gaeuman W. 2022. First reports of black eye syndrome and a systemic rickettsia-like organism in Alaskan Chionoecetes crabs including normal eyestalk microanatomy. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 150: 103-124.
• Trochta J, Groner ML, Hershberger PK, Branch T. 2022. A novel approach for directly incorporating disease into fisheries stock assessment: the powerful potential of seroprevalence data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79:611-630.

2021

• Hershberger PK, Meyers TR, Gregg JL, Groner ML, Hall SA, Jayasekera HT, MacKenzie AH, Neat AS, Piatt EN, and Garver KA, 2021. Annual Recurrences of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Epizootics in Age 0 Pacific Herring Clupea pallasii Valenciennes, 1847. Animals 11:2426.
• Elliott DG, Conway CM, McKibben CL, MacKenzie AH, Hart LM, Groner ML, Purcell MK, Gregg JL, Hershberger PK. 2021. Differential susceptibility of Yukon River and Salish Sea stocks of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to ichthyophoniasis. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 144:123-131
• Groner ML, Eisenlord ME, Yoshioka RM, Fiorenza EA, Dawkins PD, Graham OJ, Winningham M, Vompe A, Rivlin ND, Yang Bo, Burge CA, Rappazzo B, Gomes CP, Harvell CD. 2021. Warming sea surface temperatures fuel summer epidemics of eelgrass wasting disease. Marine Ecology Progress Series 679: 47-58
• Travis BA, Batts WN, Groner ML, Hershberger PK, Fradkin SC, Conway CM, Park L, Purcell MK. 2021. Novel diagnostic tests for the putative agent of bacterial gill disease in Pacific razor clams (Siliqua patula). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 107519.

2020

• Cantrell DL, Groner ML, Ben-Horin T, Grant J, Revie CW. 2020. Modeling pathogen dispersal in marine fish and shellfish. Trends in parasitology 36:239-249.
• Ben-Horin T, Bidegain G, de Leo G, Groner ML, Hofmann EE, McCallum H, Powell EN. 2020. Chapter 13. Modeling and forecasting disease dynamics in the sea. In DC Behringer, BR Silliman, KD Lafferty (Eds.), Marine disease ecology. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

2019

• Hershberger PK, AH MacKenzie, JL Gregg, A Lindquist, T Sandell, Groner ML, D Lowry. 2019. A Geographic Hot Spot of Ichthyophonus infection in the Southern Salish Sea, USA. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 136:157-162.
• Groner ML, Laurin E, Sanchez J, Stormoen M. Review CW. 2019. Potential for sea lice to evolve freshwater tolerance as a consequence of freshwater treatments in salmon aquaculture: a literature review. Aquaculture Environment Interactions 11: 507-519.
• McEwan GF, Groner ML, Cohen AAB, Imsland AKD, Crawford CW. 2019. Modelling the use of lumpfish to control sea lice on Atlantic salmon farms: Interactions with mate limitation, temperature, and treatment rules. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 133:69-82.

2018

• Ben-Horin T, Burge CA, Bushek D, Groner ML, Proestou DA, Huey LI, Bidegain G, Carnegie RB. 2018. Intensive oyster aquaculture can reduce disease impacts to sympatric wild oysters. Aquaculture Environment Interactions 10: 557-567.
• Groner ML, Hoenig JM, Pradel R, Choquet R, Vogelbein WK, Gauthier DT, Friedrichs MAM. 2018. Dermal mycobacteriosis and warming sea surface temperatures are associated with elevated mortality of striped bass in Chesapeake Bay. Ecology and Evolution 8:9384-9397.
• Groner ML, Shields JD, Landers DF Jr., Swenarton J, Hoenig J. 2018. Rising temperature causes phenological mismatch between molting and epizootic shell disease in the American lobster. American Naturalist.
• Groner ML, Burge CA, Cox R, Rivlin N, Turner M, Van Alstyne K, Wyllie-Echeverria S, Bucci J, Staudigel P, Friedman CS. 2018. Oysters and eelgrass: potential partners in a high pCO2 ocean. Ecology 99 1802:1814.

2017

• Cox R, Groner ML, Todd C, Patanasatienkul T, Revie CW. 2017 . Mate limitation in salmon lice infesting wild salmon hosts: the influence of parasite gender ratio and aggregation. Ecosphere 8:e02040.
• Hoenig JM, Groner ML, Smith MW, Vogelbein WK, Taylor DM, Landers DF Jr., Gauthier DT, Sadler P, Matsche M, Haines A, Small HJ, Pradel R, Choquet R, Shields JD. 2017. Impact of disease on the survival of three commercially fished species. Ecological Applications 27: 2116-2127.

2016

• McEwan G, Groner ML, Burnett D, Fast M, Revie CW. 2016 Managing aquatic parasites for reduced resistance: Lessons from the land. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13: 20160830
• Burge CA, Closek C, Friedman CS, Groner ML, Jenkins C, Shore A, Welsh JE. 2016. The use of filter-feeders to manage disease in a changing world. Integrative and Comparative Biology 4:973-987.
• Groner ML, Rogers LA, Bateman AW, Connors BM, Frazer LN, Godwin SC, Krkošek M, Lewis MA, Peacock SJ, Rees EE, Revie CW, Schlägel UE. 2016. Lessons from sea lice and salmon epidemiology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) B. 317: 20150203.
• Groner ML, Maynard J, Breyta R, Carnegie RB, Dobson A, Friedman CA, Froelich B, Garren M, Gulland FMD, Heron SF, Noble RT, Revie CW, Shields JD, Vanderstichel R, Weil E, Wyllie-Echeverria S, Harvell CD. 2016. Managing marine disease emergencies in an era of rapid ocean change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) B. 317: 20150364
• Eisenlord ME, Groner ML, Yoshioka RM, Elliot J, Maynard J, Fradkin S, Turner M, Pyne K, Rivlin N, van Hooidonk R, Harvell CD. 2016. Demographic shifts and severe population declines from the sea star wasting disease epizootic in the northeast Pacific. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) B. 317: 20150212.
• Maynard J, van Hooidonk R, Harvell CD, Eakin CM, Liu G, Willis BL, Williams GJ, Groner ML, Dobson A, Heron SF, Glenn R, Reardon K, Shields JD. 2016. Improving marine disease surveillance through sea temperature monitoring, outlooks and projections. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) B. 317:20150208.
• Groner ML, Burge CA, Kim CJS, Rees EE, Van Alstyne K, Yang S, Wyllie-Echeverria S, Harvell CD. 2016. Plant characteristics associated with eelgrass wasting disease. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 118: 159-168.
• Groner ML, McEwan G, Gettinby G, Rees EE, Revie CW. 2016. Quantifying the influence of temperature and salinity on the population dynamics of a marine ectoparasite. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73:1281-1291.

2015

• McEwan G, Groner ML, Fast M, Gettinby G, Review CW. 2015. Modeling the effect of refugia on the evolution of chemical resistance in a marine parasite. PLoS One 10: e0139128.
• Groner ML, Relyea RA. 2015. Predators reduce Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection loads in their prey. Freshwater Biology 8: 1699-1704.
• Groner ML, Breyta R, Dobson A, Friedman CA, Froelich B, Garren M, Maynard J, Gulland F, Weil E, Wyllie-Echeverria S, Harvell CD. 2015. Emergency response for marine diseases. Science 347: 1210.

2014

• Page-Karjian A, Norton TM, Krimer P, Groner ML, Nelson, SE and Gottdenker, NL. 2014. Factors influencing survivorship of rehabilitating green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtles with fibropapillomatosis. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 45: 507-519.
• Groner ML, Gettinby G, Stormoen M, Revie C and Cox RW. 2014. Use of population matrix models to understand the effect of temperature on the population dynamics of a marine ectoparasite. PLoS One 9: e88465.
• Groner ML, Burge CA, Couch CS, Kim CJS, Siegmund G-F, Singhal S, Smoot S, Jarrell A, Gaydos JK, Harvell CD, Wyllie-Echeverria S. 2014. Host demography influences the prevalence and severity of eelgrass wasting disease. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 108: 165-175.
• Groner ML, Rollins-Smith LA, Reinert L, Bier MA, Hempel J and Relyea RA. 2014. Interactive effects of competition and predator cues on immune responses of leopard frogs at metamorphosis. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 351-358.

2013 and prior

• Garcia-Vedrenne AE, Groner ML, Page-Karjian A, Siegmund G, Singhal S, Sziklay J, Roberts S. 2013. Development of genomic resources for a thraustochytrid pathogen and investigation of temperature influences on gene expression. PLoS One 8:e74196.
• Groner ML, Buck JC. Gervasi S, Blaustein AR, Reinert LK, Rollins-Smith LA, Bier MA, Hempel J and Relyea RA. 2013. Lasting effects: Larval exposure to predators alters immune function and disease in post-metamorphic wood frogs. Ecological Applications 23: 1443-1454.
• Groner ML, Cox R, Gettinby G and Revie CW. 2013. Use of agent-based modelling to predict benefits of cleaner fish in controlling sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infestations on farmed Atlantic salmon. Journal of Fish Diseases 36: 195-208.
• Groner ML and Relyea RA. 2011. A tale of two pesticides: How common insecticides affect aquatic communities. Freshwater Biology 56: 2391-2404.
• Groner ML and Relyea RA. 2010. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is present in northwest Pennsylvania, with high prevalence in Notophthalmus viridescens. Herpetological Review 41:462-465.
• Turner AM, Cholak EJ and Groner ML. 2010. Expanding American Lotus and Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations of a Shallow Lake. American Midland Naturalist 164: 1-8.
• Varekamp JC, Thomas E, and Groner ML. 2005. The late Pleistocene - Holocene History of Long Island Sound, Seventh Biennual LIS Research Conference Proceedings 27-32.