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Tag: parasites

Oysters, bacteria, and parasites, oh my!
Oysters

Oysters, bacteria, and parasites, oh my!

How does infection with parasites influence levels of Vibrio bacteria in oysters?
September 29, 2021September 22, 2021 Hannah Collins
Getting warmer – How will climate change shape disease?
Parasitism

Getting warmer – How will climate change shape disease?

Is a warmer world really a sicker world? When it comes to the ocean, it's not always that clear. However,…
January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 Kristin Huizenga
Wormception: How one parasite lives inside its cousin
Parasitism

Wormception: How one parasite lives inside its cousin

Where do worms live? In the dirt, on sidewalks after a rain storm, and on the bottom of the sea…
November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 Anastasia Yandulskaya
Where other bugs fear to tread: seals carry superdiving lice
Parasitism

Where other bugs fear to tread: seals carry superdiving lice

Seals carry their lice everywhere they go, including their deep dives in the ocean. But how do seal lice fare…
October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 Anastasia Yandulskaya
Threats to Cetaceans: There’s More than Meets the Eye
Hazards

Threats to Cetaceans: There’s More than Meets the Eye

Researchers spent seven years specifically studying deceased, stranded cetaceans along the coastline of the Canary Islands in Spain to figure…
October 22, 2018November 19, 2018 Rishya Narayanan
Behavior Book Review Coral Ecology Evolution Parasitism Seagrass

Grunts and Gnathiids: One Fish’s Daily Migration to Escape Parasites?

Animals move for a number of reasons. The French grunt leaves the coral reefs at night for seagrass. A group…
September 27, 2016September 26, 2016 Rebecca Flynn
Biology Climate Change Ecology Ocean Acidification Parasitism

Can being sick be a good thing for surviving ocean acidification?

Scientists (myself included!) have been doing a lot of work on how marine animals respond to rising carbon dioxide (CO2)…
June 23, 2016June 23, 2016 Erin McLean
Aquaculture Pollution

Passive Sampling for Antiparasitics near a Chile Salmon Farm

An increase in the number of positive cages and cage-level abundance of sea lice in southern Chile was shown since…
November 11, 2014 Caoxin Sun

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