Beyond symbiosis: cleaner shrimp clean up in culture.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Cleaner organisms exhibit a remarkable natural behaviour where they consume ectoparasites attached to "client" organisms. While this behaviour can be utilized as a natural method of parasitic disease control (or biocontrol), it is not known whether ...
Thane A Militz, Kate S Hutson
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Temperate facultative cleaner wrasses selectively remove ectoparasites from their client-fish in the Azores [PDF]
, 2015 Cleaner fishes are key contributors to the health of fish communities. However, much of the information in the literature refers to tropical systems, while fewer studies have examined the activity of cleaner fish inhabiting temperate ecosystems ...
Furtado, Miguel +5 more
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Access to Cleaning Services Alters Fish Physiology Under Parasite Infection and Ocean Acidification
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Cleaning symbioses are key mutualistic interactions where cleaners remove ectoparasites and tissues from client fishes. Such interactions elicit beneficial effects on clients’ ecophysiology, with cascading effects on fish diversity and abundance.
José Ricardo Paula +4 more
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Temporal comparison and predictors of fish species abundance and richness on undisturbed coral reef patches [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Large disturbances can cause rapid degradation of coral reef communities, but what baseline changes in species assemblages occur on undisturbed reefs through time?
Elena L.E.S. Wagner +4 more
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Fishes, 2020 The salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) causes problems in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture in the Northern Hemisphere, because infestations can result in both a loss of production and in fish mortality.
Kristine Cerbule, Jacques Godfroid
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Physiological Effects of Recapture and Transport from Net-Cages in Lumpfish
Fishes, 2022 Lumpfish are widely used for removing sea lice in salmonid sea-based aquaculture. If these fish are to be harvested and used for human consumption, it is necessary to know how the physical strain associated with removing the lumpfish from the net-cages ...
Atle Foss, Albert K. D. Imsland
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The serotonin blocker Ketanserin reduces coral reef fish Ctenochaetus striatus aggressive behaviour during between-species social interactions [PDF]
PeerJA multitude of species engages in social interactions not only with their conspecifics but also with other species. Such interspecific interactions can be either positive, like helping, or negative, like aggressive behaviour.
Virginie Staubli +2 more
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Shelters can negatively affect growth and welfare in lumpfish if feed is delivered continuously [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Due to the socioeconomic importance of salmon farming in the North Atlantic and the economic impact of sea lice in this industry, there is high demand for novel pest control methods.
Asa Johannesen +2 more
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Fishes, 2022 In this review, we have systematized current knowledge about the effect of stocking lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) as cleaner fish to control Lepeophtheirus salmonis infestations on farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.).
Albert Kjartan Dagbjartarson Imsland +1 more
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Cleaner shrimp remove parasite eggs on fish cages
Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 2018 Benthic stages of cultured fishes’ ectoparasites are a major contributor to persistent reinfections in aquaculture. These stages are resistant to chemical therapies and are costly to manage in terms of time and labour.
Vaughan, DB, Grutter, AS, Hutson, KS
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