Diversity of Macroparasites in Marine Fishes—2nd Edition
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Diversity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2024) | Viewed by 1102
Special Issue Editors
2. Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory 1/12, 119234 Moscow, Russia
Interests: parasitology; helminths; ichthyology; fisheries
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Interests: parasitology; helminths; systematics; phylogeny
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Special Issue of Diversity focused on parasites of marine fish. Marine fish play an important role in native communities, not only as part of the food chain, but also as hosts for parasitic worms and crustaceans. Various groups of helminths (cestodes, trematodes, nematodes, acanthocephalans, copepods, isopods, hirudineans) make up a huge share of the biological diversity of marine ecosystems. Pathologies caused by helminth infection affect the survival of the hosts, which entails damage to the presentation of the commercially important fish species. Besides causing direct damage to hosts, they also affect the flows of matter and energy. Marine fish harbor helminths that are dangerous to human health (anisakids, heterophyids, etc.), which makes marine parasitology a very important branch of marine biology.
This Special Issue is devoted to a wide range of issues related to parasites of marine fish: geographic and depth distribution of parasites, biogeography, host specificity, life cycles, taxonomy, phylogeny, genetic diversity, biochemistry of parasite–host interaction, physiological features of marine fish parasites associated with the accumulation of heavy metals, ichthyopathology, and parasitic diseases of marine aquaculture.
Dr. Ilya Gordeev
Dr. Sergey Sokolov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- helminths
- marine environment
- teleost fish
- elasmobranch fish
- infection
- parasitology
- species diversity
- systematics
- genetics
- phylogeny
