| morphological plasticity and phylogeny in a monogenean parasite transferring between wild and reared fish populations. | it is widely accepted that disease interactions between cultured and wild fish occur repeatedly, although reported cases have mainly relied just on the observation of similar symptoms in affected populations. whether there is an explicit pathogen transfer between fish stocks, or each develops its own pathogen population, has been insufficiently studied and rarely supported by molecular tools. in this study, we used population dynamics and genetic structure of the monogenean furnestinia echeneis ... | 2013 | 23620799 |
| scarcity of parasite assemblages in the adriatic-reared european sea bass (dicentrarchus labrax) and sea bream (sparus aurata). | the shaping forces of parasite community structure still is the main subject in the ecological parasitology whilst community predictability and repeatability showed that hardly a generally applicable role is ever going to be assessed. defining and describing parasite communities can be very useful from the epizootiological point, in order to help in the assessment of the medical and economical impact of certain parasitosis, moreover when hosts are economically valuable species. since parasite as ... | 2010 | 20837380 |
| the phylogenetic position of furnestinia echeneis (monogenea, diplectanidae) based on molecular data: a case of morphological adaptation? | the genus furnestinia (diplectanidae) contains only one species, furnestinia echeneis. however, its close morphological similarity with the genus lamellodiscus (diplectanidae) raises doubt concerning its placement in a separate genus. these two genera differ only by their number of lamellodiscs: one for furnestinia, two for lamellodiscus. here, the taxonomic position of f. echeneis is investigated via a phylogenetic reconstruction based on partial 18s rdna for f. echeneis and several lamellodisc ... | 2001 | 11239941 |