Article
Amplification and transport of an endemic fish disease by an introduced species
2010-11-01
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of American shad from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of North America in the late 1800's and the subsequent population expansion in the 1980's resulted in the amplification of Ichthyophonus sp., a Mesomycetozoean parasite of wild marine fishes. Sequence analysis of the ribosomal DNA gene complex (small subunit and internal transcribed spacer regions) and Ichthyophonus epidemiological characteri...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8c59a824-e7c5-53a4-b035-9a59545e528b
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10530-010-9760-5
