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

• Main Author: Neal, Sandy
• Other Authors: Goater, Tim
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University 2010
• Subjects: Fishes > Parasites; Copepoda; Keta; The Louse; Atlantic salmon; Oncorhynchus gorbuscha; Pink salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10613/59

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...