Effect of environmental salinity on sea lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis settlement success

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 201-212

  Bricknell, Ian R ^a   Dalesman, Sarah J ^a,b   O'Shea, Bríd ^a,b   Pert, Campbell C ^a   Luntz, A Jennifer Mordue ^b  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyposalinity; Infection rate; Salinity gradients; Sea lice; Survival

Indexed keywords

DEFINITIVE HOST; ECTOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LOUSE; SALINITY; SALMONID; SURVIVAL;

CALIGIDAE; COPEPODA; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 33749346759     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao071201     Document Type: Article

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