Fecundity limitation of Calanus helgolandicus, by the parasite Ellobiopsis sp.

A. Albaina; X. Irigoien

doi:10.1093/plankt/fbi129

Fecundity limitation of Calanus helgolandicus, by the parasite Ellobiopsis sp.

A. Albaina^*, X. Irigoien

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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)
Pages (from-to)	413-418
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Plankton Research
Volume	28
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbi129
State	Published - Apr 2006
Externally published	Yes

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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.

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Aquatic Science
Ecology

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Fecundity limitation of Calanus helgolandicus, by the parasite Ellobiopsis sp.

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