Pacific and Atlantic Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Krøyer, 1838) are allopatric subspecies: Lepeophtheirus salmonis salmonis and L. salmonis oncorhynchi subspecies novo

BACKGROUND: The salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis is a parasitic copepod that infects salmonids in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Although considered as a single species, morphological and biological differences have been reported between lice from the two oceans. Likewise, studies based on nuc...

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Autores principales: Skern-Mauritzen, Rasmus, Torrissen, Ole, Glover, Kevin Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4007600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24628716
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-15-32