Over the past 80 years, tilapia have been translocated globally for aquaculture; active
production is recorded in> 124 countries. Of 7 million tonnes of tilapia produced in …

One of the most widely distributed African freshwater fish is the African sharptooth catfish
Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) that is naturally distributed in 8 of the 10 ichthyofaunal regions …

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic reveals a
major gap in global biosecurity infrastructure: a lack of publicly available biological samples …

The exchange of fish for research may expose an aquatic laboratory to pathogen
contamination as incoming fish can introduce bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses capable …

Heterogeneous exposure to parasites may contribute to host species differentiation. Hosts
often harbour multiple parasite species which may interact and thus modify each other's …

Dactylogyridae is one of the most studied families of parasitic flatworms with more than 1000
species and 166 genera described to date including ecto-and endoparasites. Dactylogyrid …

there continue to be problems with the quality of fixed specimens.[...] many regions with
supposedly high, but currently poorly known, cestode diversity are impacted due to …

Due to the increasing consumption of platinum (Pt), especially in automobile exhaust
catalysts, environmental concentrations of Pt are of emerging concern worldwide. Limited …

Simple Summary Monogenean flatworms are mainly parasitic in lower aquatic vertebrates
including fish, anurans and chelonians. Gyrodactylus is one of the 23 genera of …

Ergasilus (von Nordmann, 1832)(Ergasilidae) is a species-rich group of parasitic copepods
with a wide distribution in freshwater, marine and brackish environments. Up to now, 9 …