Experimental infection of American winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) with Glugea stephani (Microsporida) |
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| Authors: | A. Cali,P. M. Takvorian,J. J. Ziskowski,&dagger T. K. Sawyer,&Dagger |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Zoology &Physiology, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102, U.S.A.;National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fishery Center, Sandy Hook Laboratory, Highlands, New Jersey 07732;National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fishery Center, Oxford Marine Laboratory, Oxford, Maryland 21654 |
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| Abstract: | Young-of-the-year Pseudopleuronectes americanus were captured in Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey and maintained in aquaria at 16–19° C for 115 days in 1982 and 127 days in 1983. Half of them were experimentally exposed to Glugea stephani and the others were sham exposed. During the course of these experiments fish from both groups died as a result of G. stephani infection, demonstrating Glwgea -induced mortality in this species. Infections were found in both control and experimentally exposed fish. Mortality of Glwgea -infected fish in the exposed group was 63% while that in the controls was 28.5%. |
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