| recent increase in nybelinia surmenicola prevalence and intensity in pacific hake (merluccius productus) off the united states west coast. | a larval marine cestode was found in 82.0% of 834 pacific hake (merluccius productus) stomachs collected from 341 trawl stations along the united states west coast during the summers of 2008 and 2009. morphology and dna sequencing was used to identify the cestode as nybelinia surmenicola. in an examination of 131 pacific hake stomachs collected from the same region in 1999, n. surmenicola prevalence was 35.1%. the results from a general linear model suggested that their prevalence is influenced ... | 2012 | 21954870 |