“Lure fishing” strategies by Mothocya parvostis (Isopoda: Cymothoidae): Feeding behavior-mediated infestation on juveniles of black sea bream, Acanthopagrus schlegelii [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeCymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Isopoda) are parasitic crustaceans that infest fish inhabiting marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. Few studies have examined the strategies Cymothoidae use to parasitize their hosts.
Hiroki Fujita +3 more
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Occurrence of Isopods in Two Species of Snappers (Lutjanidae) from Northeast Brazil [PDF]
Journal of Parasitology Research, 2019 Parasitic isopod species are poorly known in the northeastern coast of Brazil. In this sense, this study presents novel records of Isopoda of the families Aegidae, Cymothoidae, and Corallanidae.
André M. Alves +8 more
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Mutilation on gill filaments of Piaractus brachypomus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) caused by Braga patagonica (Crustacea: Cymothoidae), in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia VeterináriaFish aquaculture is one of the main food production sectors for the growing global human population and is currently one of the most profitable production activities.
Marcos Sidney Brito Oliveira +1 more
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Truly a hyperparasite, or simply an epibiont on a parasite? The case of Cyclocotyla bellones (Monogenea, Diclidophoridae) [PDF]
Parasite, 2022 Cyclocotyla bellones Otto, 1823 (Monogenea, Diclidophoridae) is one of the few monogenean species reported as hyperparasitic: the worms dwell on cymothoid isopods, themselves parasites of the buccal cavity of fishes. We present here observations based on
Bouguerche Chahinez +2 more
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Architectural instability, inverted skews and mitochondrial phylogenomics of Isopoda: outgroup choice affects the long-branch attraction artefacts [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The majority strand of mitochondrial genomes of crustaceans usually exhibits negative GC skews. Most isopods exhibit an inversed strand asymmetry, believed to be a consequence of an inversion of the replication origin (ROI). Recently, we proposed that an
Hong Zou +7 more
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The genome sequence of the tongue-biting isopod, Ceratothoa steindachneri Koelbel, 1878 [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Wellcome Open ResearchWe present a genome assembly from a specimen of Ceratothoa steindachneri (tongue-biting isopod; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Cymothoidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 3,927.82 megabases.
Bethany Reed +3 more
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Description and ontogeny of a 40-million-year-old parasitic isopodan crustacean: Parvucymoides dvorakorum gen. et sp. nov. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 A collection of exceptionally well-preserved fossil specimens of crustaceans, clearly representatives of Isopoda, is presented here. Excavated from the late Eocene (approximately 40 million years ago) freshwater sediments of the Trupelník hill field site
Serita Van der Wal +3 more
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Shape of attachment structures in parasitic isopodan crustaceans: the influence of attachment site and ontogeny [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Many fields of modern systematic biology are adult-centred. This is unfortunately also the case for Cymothoidae, an ingroup of parasitic forms of Isopoda, with fishes as hosts.
Serita van der Wal, Joachim T. Haug
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Niche partitioning and host specialisation in fish-parasitising isopods: Trait-dependent patterns from three ecosystems on the east coast of India. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe fish‐parasitic isopods of family cymothoidae have different preferences for hosts according to their traits viz., demersal, pelagic, or according to their habitat in the water column. Abstract Due to their large size and obligate nature, Cymothoid isopods inflict a high degree of tissue damage to fish.
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Livoneca redmanii Leach, 1818 (Cymothoidae) a parasitic isopod infesting the gills of the European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758): morphological and molecular characterization study [PDF]
BMC Veterinary Research, 2022 Background Prevalence, morphology, and molecular characteristics of isopodiosis in the European seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax, in Egypt were assessed using light and electron microscopy and polymerase chain reaction targeting the mitochondrial COI ...
Ebtsam Sayed Hassan Abdallah +1 more
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