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The Challenge of Fish Coccidia 1
Author(s) -
DESSER SHERWIN S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
the journal of protozoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.067
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1550-7408
pISSN - 0022-3921
DOI - 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1981.tb02847.x
Subject(s) - coccidia , biology , fish <actinopterygii> , host (biology) , invertebrate , eimeria , zoology , ecology , parasite hosting , fishery , world wide web , computer science , microbiology and biotechnology
Species of Eimeria occurring in fishes show important differences, especially in their life cycles, with respect to what is known for those forms found in mammals or other hosts. In some cases, at least, some small invertebrate may play the role of vector or intermediate host. Present studies of fish coccidia may throw light on the possible evolution of certain aspects of host‐parasite interrelationships involving eimerian species in particular: for example, the earliest site (perhaps not the gut) of infection and even the “original” host group (perhaps invertebrates rather than vertebrates).