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Hematodinium infections in cultured ridgetail white prawns, Exopalaemon carinicauda, in eastern China
2010-02-01
Abstract excerpt
Parasitic dinoflagellates in the genus Hematodinium are highly pathogenic to crustaceans. This study presents the first report of Hematodinium infection in shrimps in China. Various forms of the parasite were observed in affected ridgetail white prawn Exopalaemon carinicauda — uninucleate, binucleate and multinucleate sporonts, and occasionally motile dinospores. The parasite caused profound pathological changes i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 21d6619a-f983-5089-ad9e-9bb933981a9a
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2009.12.024
