Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus, as a possible paratenic host for salmonid nematodes in a subarctic lake

• Published in: Parasitology Research
• Main Authors: Braicovich, Paola Elizabeth, Kuhn, Jesper A., Amundsen, Per Arne, Marcogliese, David J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Cystidicola Sp; Philonema Sp; Takvatn; Trophically Transmitted Parasites; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Arctic; Norway; Argentina; Noruega; Climate change; Northern Norway; Subarctic; Arctic University of Norway; UiT The Arctic University of Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/62551

In Takvatn, a subarctic lake in northern Norway, 35 of 162 three-spined sticklebacks examined were infected with 106 specimens of third-stage larvae of Philonema oncorhynchi. The prevalence and mean intensity of P. oncorhynchi were 10 % and 2.0 in 2013 and 24 % and 3.0 in 2014, respectively. A singl...