Kudoa thyrsites from Japanese flounder and Kudoa lateolabracis n. sp. from Chinese sea bass: Causative myxozoans of post-mortem myoliquefaction

Fish Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-85

  Yokoyama, Hiroshi ^a   Whipps, Christopher M ^b   Kent, Michael L ^b   Mizuno, Kaori ^c   Kawakami, Hidemasa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ehime Prefectural Fish Disease Control Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chinese sea bass; Japanese flounder; Kudoa lateolabracis; Kudoa thyrsites; Lateolabrax sp.; Myoliquefaction; Myxozoan; Paralichthys olivaceus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KUDOA; KUDOA LATEOLABRACIS; KUDOA THYRSITES; LATEOLABRAX; MYXOZOA; PARALICHTHYS; PARALICHTHYS OLIVACEUS; PISCES; PLEURONECTOIDEI; SERRANIDAE; THYRSITES;

EID: 4344617921     PISSN: 0388788X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3147/jsfp.39.79     Document Type: Article

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