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Triploid grass carp susceptibility and potential for disease transfer when used to control aquatic vegetation in reservoirs with avian vacuolar myelinopathy.
Journal of aquatic animal health - 1 Dec 2013
Haynie Rebecca S, Bowerman William W, Williams Sarah K, Morrison John R, Grizzle John M, Fischer John M, Wilde Susan B
Abstract excerpt
Avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM) is an often-lethal neurologic disease that affects waterbirds and their avian predators (i.e., bald eagles Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the southern United States. Feeding trials and field surveys provided evidence that AVM is caused by a toxin-producing, undescribed cyanobacterium (UCB), which grows as an epiphyte on the leaves of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV). Reservoirs...
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