Post-haemorrhagic anaemia in sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax caused by blood feeding of Ceratothoa oestroides (Isopoda: Cymothoidae)
Horton, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4250-1068; Okamura, B..
2003
Post-haemorrhagic anaemia in sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax caused by blood feeding of Ceratothoa oestroides (Isopoda: Cymothoidae).
Journal of Fish Diseases, 26 (7).
401-406.
Abstract/Summary
The effects of the fish parasitic isopod, Ceratothoa oestroides (Risso), on haematological parameters of its cage-cultured sea bass host, Dicentrarchus labrax (L.), were studied. Analyses of blood parameters (cell counts, haemoglobin content and haematocrit) were carried out on parasitized and unparasitized sea bass from a fish farm in Turkey. Parasitized fish had significantly lowered erythrocyte counts, haematocrit and haemoglobin values and significantly increased leucocyte counts. Blood feeding by C. oestroides thus produces a post-haemorrhagic anaemia and the fish appear to mount an immune response to the presence of parasites.
Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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Additional Keywords: | anaemia, Ceratothoa oestroides, Dicentrarchus labrax, feeding, isopoda, |
Date made live: | 20 Apr 2004 +0 (UTC) |
URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/101355 |
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