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Muscle degeneration associated with cotton shrimp disease of Penaeus indicus
Author(s) -
Ramasamy P.,
Jayakumar R.,
Brennan G P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of fish diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-2761
pISSN - 0140-7775
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2761.2000.00208.x
Subject(s) - shrimp , biology , penaeus , crustacean , decapoda , prawn , white (mutation) , fishery , zoology , anatomy , genetics , gene
Microsporidian disease of prawns has generally been recognized by the progressive white opacity associated with the musculature. Such microsporidian‐infected prawns are known as ‘cotton shrimp’, ‘milky white’ or ‘chalky white’ prawns. Microsporidians have been reported from prawns of several genera, notably Penaeus , Pandalus and Crangon (Sprague & Couch 1971; Newman, Johnson & Pauley 1976). These diseases are highly pathogenic and cause epizootics in feral crustacean populations (Iverson & Manning 1959; Overstreet 1973; Lightner, Fontaine & Hanks 1975; Sindermann 1990).