Article
Seasonality of QPX disease in the Raritan Bay (NY) wild hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) population
2017-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Quahog Parasite Unknown (QPX) is a potentially lethal pathogen of the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria along the northeastern coast of the United States. In the Raritan Bay wild clam population, QPX prevalence and infection intensity at three sites were examined by both histology and quantitative PCR in 2006. At two of three sites, QPX infection showed a seasonal pattern, with prevalence and weighted prevalence inc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 115f48d3-1ca2-5d17-9654-864cfaa2069a
- DOI
- 10.1111/are.12969
