seasonal patterns in the biology of eubothrium salvelini infecting brook trout in a creek in lower michigan. | a total of 392 brook trout, salvelinus fontinalis, and 211 slimy sculpin, cottus cognatus, was examined for eubothrium salvelini (cestoda) from may 1995 through september 1996 from sweetwater creek, michigan. no seasonal pattern in prevalence, intensity, and abundance of parasites in trout and sculpin was determined. however a seasonal pattern in the length and percent gravid e. salvelini in brook trout suggests that recruitment of this parasite occurs during late summer and early fall. during t ... | 1998 | 9920300 |
parasites of the deepwater sculpin, myoxocephalus thompsoni (cottidae), from lake michigan and lake huron. | a total of 190 deepwater sculpins, myoxocephalus thompsoni, collected in 1995 from michigan waters of lake michigan and lake huron was examined for parasites. five parasite species occurred in sculpins from lake michigan with echinorhynchus salmonis being most common. six parasite species infected sculpins from lake huron, with haplonema sp. the most common. haplonema sp. is the only gravid helminth species reported from deepwater sculpins. pleistophora sp. and trichodina sp. infected sculpins f ... | 1997 | 9057717 |