Sea louse infection of juvenile sockeye salmon in relation to marine salmon farms on Canada's west coast

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Price, Michael H H ^a,b   Proboszcz, Stan L ^c   Routledge, Rick D ^d   Gottesfeld, Allen S ^e   Orr, Craig ^c   Reynolds, John D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (Canada)

^c Watershed Watch Salmon Society   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Skeena Fisheries Commission   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALIGUS CLEMENSI; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECTOPARASITE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RATE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; NONHUMAN; PISCICULTURE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SALMON; SEA LOUSE INFESTATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANIMAL; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETICS; LOUSE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SEA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

CALIGUS CLEMENSI; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS; ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA; PHTHIRAPTERA;

ANIMALS; CANADA; FISHERIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SALMON; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951796054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016851     Document Type: Article

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