Abstract
The effect of the parasite Ellobiopsis sp., on the fecundity of Calanus helgolandicus and Calanoides carinatus in the Bay of Biscay, was investigated in May 2003. An average of 6.8% of C. helgolandicus females were infected with Ellobiopsis sp., whereas none of the C. carinatus were found to be infected. An objective method of estimating gonad development was applied to quantitatively measure the effect of the parasitism on the reproduction of the copepod. Parasitism by Ellobiopsis sp. has the potential to reduce the fecundity of C. helgolandicus females.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 413-418 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Plankton Research |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are grateful to the crew of the R. V. ‘Investigador’ and the on-board scientists and analysts, for their support during sampling. Thanks are due to B. Niehoff (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) for training the author in the method of estimating gonad development, to M. Collins (University of Southampton, UK) for revising the text and to A. Urtizberea (AZTI Foundation, Spain). A.A.′s work was supported by a doctoral fellowship of the Education, Universities and Research Department of the Basque Country Government. X.I. is supported partially by a Ramon y Cajal grant, from the Spanish Ministry of Research.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Aquatic Science
- Ecology