Epizootics of metazoan gill parasites did not threaten feasibility of farming southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) in a trial extending over summer months

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 154, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 122-128

  Hayward, Craig J ^a   Aiken, Hamish M ^a   Nowak, Barbara F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Epidemiology; Epizootic; Monogenea; Parasitic copepoda

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GILL; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TUNA; WATER TEMPERATURE; WORM;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; FISH DISEASES; GILLS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PROTOZOA; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; TUNA;

COPEPODA; EURYPHORUS BRACHYPTERUS; HEXOSTOMA THYNNI; METAZOA; MONOGENEA; PISCES; PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYOPISTHOCOTYLEA; PSEUDOCYCNUS APPENDICULATUS; SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS MACCOYII;

EID: 43049085843     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.02.027     Document Type: Article

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