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Chemosphere ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 550-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filipe Laranjeiro ◽  
Sara Pérez ◽  
Patricia Navarro ◽  
José Antonio Carrero ◽  
Ricardo Beiras

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Davenport ◽  
Sheila McCullough ◽  
Robert W. Thomas ◽  
Luke Harman ◽  
Rob McAllen

The behavioural responses of scavenging animals to mackerel (Scomber scombrus) baits were studied by short-term video photography in shallow water (16–18 m depth) at Lough Hyne, Ireland. Earliest arrivals (after seconds/minutes) at baits were small fish or swimming crabs (Liocarcinus depurator), followed by crawling portunid crabs. After tens of minutes, juvenile whelks 2–4 mm shell length (Nassarius reticulatusand/orNassarius incrassatus) sometimes arrived to feed. They moved at a mean speed of 1.24 (SD 0.392) mm s−1. After tens of minutes or hours, single large scavengers arrived, consuming most of the bait; the most common of these wereCancer pagurusthat fed in a wasteful fashion, generating large quantities of mackerel scraps.Cancer pagurusmoved into view at a mean speed of 48.7 (SD 16.9) mm s−1(39 times the whelk speed). A single individual ofC. pagurus(197 mm carapace width) arrived at a bait carrying 24 juvenile whelks on the dorsal surface of its carapace. No whelks were present on walking legs or chelipeds. The crab fed for 6.8 min and 3 whelks fell off before it departed. The nature of this crab/whelk association is discussed; on balance it appears that it is a previously unreported example of phoresy/phoresis. No whelks were observed being carried by other edible crabs or upon large numbers of scavenging portunid crabs.


2014 ◽  
Vol 186 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Galante-Oliveira ◽  
Raquel Marçal ◽  
Fernanda Guimarães ◽  
Jorge Soares ◽  
José Carlos Lopes ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Francisco ◽  
A. Almeida ◽  
A.M. Castro ◽  
S. Pina ◽  
F. Russell-Pinto ◽  
...  

AbstractThe digenean trematode Diphtherostomum brusinae (Stossich, 1888) Stossich, 1903 presents a complex life cycle that may involve more than one intermediate host. The present study represents the first description of the metacercariae from D. brusinae infecting the labial palps of a new intermediate host, Mytilus galloprovincialis, in the Aveiro estuary, Portugal. The morphology of this parasitic stage was studied by light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and some differences were reported (body and sucker sizes, and spine distribution and shape). In this work, the 18S partial region of the ribosomal DNA was sequenced from D. brusinae metacercariae isolated from M. galloprovincialis collected in different localities of the Aveiro estuary. In addition, sequences from the same region of the 18S rDNA were obtained from D. brusinae cercariae and metacercariae, hosted by Nassarius reticulatus and Cerastoderma edule, respectively. No intraspecific polymorphism was detected in the 18S partial region, since there was 100% homology among all the sequences analysed. The same comparison was made for the ITS1, and we observed intraspecific polymorphism in this region. To our knowledge, this is the first report of D. brusinae metacercariae infecting the mussel M. galloprovincialis with support from morphological and molecular data.


2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 891-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Germán Rodríguez ◽  
Piero Rouget ◽  
Javier Franco ◽  
Joxe Mikel Garmendia ◽  
Iñigo Muxika ◽  
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