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Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus, as a possible paratenic host for salmonid nematodes in a subarctic lake
Date
2016-03Registration in:
Braicovich, Paola Elizabeth; Kuhn, Jesper A.; Amundsen, Per Arne; Marcogliese, David J.; Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus, as a possible paratenic host for salmonid nematodes in a subarctic lake; Springer; Parasitology Research; 115; 3; 3-2016; 1335-1338
0932-0113
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Author
Braicovich, Paola Elizabeth
Kuhn, Jesper A.
Amundsen, Per Arne
Marcogliese, David J.
Abstract
In Takvatn, a subarctic lake in northern Norway, 35 of 162 three-spined sticklebacks examined were infected with 106 specimens of third-stage larvae of Philonema oncorhynchi. The prevalence and mean intensity of P. oncorhynchi were 10 % and 2.0 in 2013 and 24 % and 3.0 in 2014, respectively. A single specimen of Cystidicola farionis was found in an additional sample. While the latter is considered an accidental infection, three-spined sticklebacks may function as paratenic hosts of P. oncorhynchi, potentially enhancing its transmission to salmonids due to their central role in the lacustrine food web of this subarctic lake.