Salmon sea lice represent one of the most important threats to salmon farming throughout the world. Results of private monitoring efforts have shown an increase in the number of positive cages and cage-level abundance of ...

A total of 1511 Atlantic salmon smolts representing 75 full-sib and 40 half-sib families from the Antares S.A. breeding programwere challengedwith Caligus rogercresseyi in order to assess the quantitative genetic ...

Lice from family Echinophthiriidae are of the few insects that have successfully colonized marine environment living as ectoparasites of pinnipeds, i.e., sea lions, seals, and the walrus. They have developed unique adaptations ...

Sea lice (Caligus rogercresseyi) is an ectoparasite which causes major production losses in the salmon aquaculture industry worldwide. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are two of the ...

Recently, a group of chemosensory receptors from the ionotropic receptor family was molecularly characterized in the sea louse Caligus rogercresseyi. Nonetheless, understanding the physiological functions of these genes ...

Copyright © 2019 Robledo, Gutiérrez, Barría, Lhorente, Houston and Yáñez.Sea lice (Caligus rogercresseyi) are ectoparasitic copepods which have a large negative economic and welfare impact in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) ...