Soft tunic syndrome in the edible ascidian Halocynthia roretzi is caused by a kinetoplastid protist

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-161

  Kumagai, Akira ^a   Suto, Atsushi ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Tanabe, Toru ^a   Song, Jun Young ^b   Kitamura, Shin Ichi ^b   Hirose, Euichi ^c   Kamaishi, Takashi ^d   Miwa, Satoshi ^d  

^a Miyagi Prefecture Fisheries Technology Institute   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Causative agent; Flagellate; Halocynthia roretzi; Kinetoplastid protist; Soft tunic syndrome

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDIBLE SPECIES; ETIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE; FLAGELLATE; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; MARICULTURE; MICROSCOPY; PATHOGENICITY; SEAWATER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; DISCICRISTATA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; KINETOPLASTIDA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA;

EID: 79959193666     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02372     Document Type: Article

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