| fish gut microbiota analysis differentiates physiology and behavior of invasive asian carp and indigenous american fish. | gut microbiota of invasive asian silver carp (svcp) and indigenous planktivorous gizzard shad (gzsd) in mississippi river basin were compared using 16s rrna gene pyrosequencing. analysis of more than 440 000 quality-filtered sequences obtained from the foregut and hindgut of gzsd and svcp revealed high microbial diversity in these samples. gzsd hindgut (gzsd_h) samples (n=23) with >7000 operational taxonomy units (otus) exhibited the highest alpha-diversity indices followed by svcp foregut (n=15 ... | 2014 | 24132079 |
| characterization of the life cycle of a fish eye fluke, austrodiplostomum ostrowskiae (digenea: diplostomidae), with notes on two other diplostomids infecting biomphalaria havanensis (mollusca: planorbidae) from catfish aquaculture ponds in mississippi, usa. | ocular diplostomiasis is caused by trematode species in the family diplostomidae, specifically those in the genera austrodiplostomum, diplostomum, and tylodelphys. diplostomid trematodes are globally distributed parasites of fish. heavy infections of diplostomids that parasitize the eyes of fish can result in acute mortality while chronic infections are often characterized by impaired vision or blindness. in the southeastern united states, commercial catfish production is threatened by piscivoro ... | 2016 | 26741049 |
| confocal microscopy as a useful approach to describe gill rakers of asian species of carp and native filter-feeding fishes of the upper mississippi river system. | to better understand potential diet overlap among exotic asian species of carp and native species of filter-feeding fishes of the upper mississippi river system, microscopy was used to document morphological differences in the gill rakers. analysing samples first with light microscopy and subsequently with confocal microscopy, the three-dimensional structure of gill rakers in hypophthalmichthys molitrix, hypophthalmichthys nobilis and dorosoma cepedianum was more thoroughly described and illustr ... | 2014 | 25141916 |