Oysters
Oysters, bacteria, and parasites, oh my!
How does infection with parasites influence levels of Vibrio bacteria in oysters?
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…