Infection prevalence, seasonality and host specificity of actinosporean types (Myxozoa) in an Atlantic salmon fish farm located in Northern Scotland

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 263-268

  Özer, Ahmet ^a,b   Wootten, Rodney ^a   Shinn, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Actinospore; Aurantiactinomyxon; Echinactinomyxon; Myxozoa; Neoactinomyxum; Raabeia; Siedleckiella; Synactinomyxon; Triactinomyxon

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYXIDA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; AURANTIACTINOMYXON; ECHINACTINOMYXON; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; LUMBRICULIDAE; MYXOZOA; NAIDIDAE; NEOACTINOMYXUM; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PROTOZOA; RAABEIA; SALMO SALAR; SYNACTINOMYXON; TRIACTINOMYXON; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0036955223     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.050     Document Type: Article

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