Macroparasites of allis shad (Alosa alosa) and twaite shad (Alosa fallax) of the Western Iberian Peninsula Rivers : ecological, phylogenetic and zoonotic insights

Acknowledgments The authors sincerely thank M.N. Cueto, J.M. Antonio and M.E. Garci of the ECOBIOMAR group at IIM-CSIC for molecular analysis, technical support and quality images of some parasites. M. Bao is supported by a PhD grant from the University of Aberdeen and also by financial support of t...

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Published in:Parasitology Research
Main Authors: Bao, M, Roura, A., Mota, M., Nachn, D. J., Antunes, C., Cobo, F., MacKenzie, K, Pascual, S.
Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Natural & Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Medical Sciences
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
Alosa spp
macroparasites
Anisakis spp
phylogeny
freshwater
Iberian Rivers
life-cycle
Nyctiphanes-Couchii
Northeast Atlantic
intermediate host
genetic-structure
1905 Digenea
NE Atlantic
Baltic Sea
NW Spain
platyhelminthes
QH301 Biology
QH301
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2164/7571
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-015-4601-1
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Summary:Acknowledgments The authors sincerely thank M.N. Cueto, J.M. Antonio and M.E. Garci of the ECOBIOMAR group at IIM-CSIC for molecular analysis, technical support and quality images of some parasites. M. Bao is supported by a PhD grant from the University of Aberdeen and also by financial support of the contract from the EU Project PARASITE (grant number 312068). A. Roura is supported by Fundación Barrié de la Maza postdoctoral fellowship and a Securing Food, Water and the Environment Research Focus Area grant (La Trobe University). This study was partially supported by a PhD grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (SFRH/BD/4892/2008) and partially supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the COMPETE—Operational Competitiveness Programme and national funds through FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project PEst-C/MAR/LA0015/2013. The authors thank the staff of the Station of Hydrobiology of the USC Encoro do Con^ due their participation in the surveys, with special mention to J. Sánchez for separating digenean fauna existing in the stomachs of A. fallax. This work has been partially supported by the project 10PXIB2111059PR of the Xunta de Galicia and the project MIGRANET of the Interreg IV B SUDOE (South-West Europe) Territorial Cooperation Programme (SOE2/P2/E288). D.J. Nachón is supported by a PhD grant from the Xunta de Galicia (PRE/2011/198) Peer reviewed

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