How sea lice from salmon farms may cause wild salmonid declines in Europe and North America and be a threat to fishes elsewhere

MJ Costello - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fishes farmed in sea pens may become infested by parasites from wild fishes and in turn
become point sources for parasites. Sea lice, copepods of the family Caligidae, are the best …

Global diversity of marine isopods (except Asellota and crustacean symbionts)

GCB Poore, NL Bruce - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The crustacean order Isopoda (excluding Asellota, crustacean symbionts and freshwater
taxa) comprise 3154 described marine species in 379 genera in 37 families according to the …

The global diversity of parasitic isopods associated with crustacean hosts (Isopoda: Bopyroidea and Cryptoniscoidea)

JD Williams, CB Boyko - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Parasitic isopods of Bopyroidea and Cryptoniscoidea (commonly referred to as
epicarideans) are unique in using crustaceans as both intermediate and definitive hosts. In …

The butterfly effect: parasite diversity, environment, and emerging disease in aquatic wildlife

RD Adlard, TL Miller, NJ Smit - Trends in Parasitology, 2015 - cell.com
Aquatic wildlife is increasingly subjected to emerging diseases often due to perturbations of
the existing dynamic balance between hosts and their parasites. Accelerating changes in …

Life cycle and life history strategies of parasitic Crustacea

EH Williams, L Bunkley-Williams - … crustacea: state of knowledge and future …, 2019 - Springer
Different parasitic life strategies are described including four new life cycles: complex
rebrooding, micro-male, mesoparasite and prey-predator transfer. Four new life cycle …

Biodiversity and taxonomy of the parasitic Crustacea

G Boxshall, P Hayes - Parasitic Crustacea: State of knowledge and future …, 2019 - Springer
Crustaceans have independently adopted a parasitic mode of life on numerous occasions,
and this chapter reviews the classification and species richness of each of the parasitic …

The ecological significance of parasitic crustaceans

PC Sikkel, RL Welicky - Parasitic Crustacea: State of knowledge and future …, 2019 - Springer
Despite that aquatic parasite diversity and abundance likely surpasses that of terrestrial
parasites, our understanding of aquatic parasites lags far behind our knowledge of terrestrial …

Abundance of a cryptic generalist parasite reflects degradation of an ecosystem

JM Artim, MD Nicholson, GC Hendrick, M Brandt… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem degradation due to anthropogenic activities is the primary issue of our times.
Theoretical analyses as well as efforts to restore and manage ecosystems depend on …

Life history of gnathiid isopods-current knowledge and future directions

K Tanaka - Plankton and Benthos Research, 2007 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Gnathiidae is a family of Isopoda, showing a distinct morphology and ecology. Species in
the family have ten walking legs compared to 14 for isopods in general. The life cycle of the …

Diel fish migration facilitates functional connectivity of coral reef and seagrass habitats via transport of ectoparasites

GC Hendrick, MD Nicholson, P Narvaez… - Marine Ecology …, 2024 - int-res.com
Connectivity between habitats and ecological communities is a critical component of trophic
structure. Coral reef systems include reef, seagrass, and mangrove habitats, and the …