The Differential Secretion of Proteolytic Salivary Enzymes by the Salmon Louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Copepoda: Caligidae) in Response to the Skin Mucus of Various Salmonid and Non-Salmonid Fish Hosts
Lepeophtheirus salmonis is a salmonid-specific marine ectoparasite but has also been documented on white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, and three-spine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus in coastal British Columbia (BC). Sea lice graze on the mucus and epithelial cells of their host and this in...
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Language: | English |
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Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10613/59 |