G reetings. This publication represents over three years of work by dozens of people around
the world, many of whom-like you-are MPA managers or practitioners of marine …

The use of parasites as biological tags in population studies of marine fish in the south-
western Atlantic has proved to be a successful tool for discriminating stocks for all species to …

Genetic variation at 21 gene-enzyme systems was studied in a sample of an adult
population of Anisakis typica (Diesing, 1860) recovered in the dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis from …

High numbers of franciscanas (Pontoporia blainvillei) have been bycaught in gillnets for at
least four decades. The impact is strong but not homogeneous along the species distribution …

Trematodes are one of the world's most diverse groups of parasitic platyhelminths found in
vertebrates. In this book, a parasite-host list, including all species of trematodes recorded in …

Evaluating population structure in the marine environment is a challenging task when the
species of interest is continuously distributed, and yet the use of population or stock structure …

Abstract Adult Anisakis Dujardin, 1845 were found in two specimens of killer whale Orcinus
orca and one specimen of franciscana Pontoporia blainvillei stranded from off the coast of …

The reader may wonder why, within a book of biology and conservation of marine mammals,
a chapter should be devoted to their parasites. There are four fundamental reasons. First …

Genetic and morphological studies were carried out on acanthocephalans belonging to
Corynosoma Lühe, 1904 and referable to the species C. cetaceum Johnston & Best, 1942 …

Marine mammals are long-lived top predators with vagile lifestyles, which often inhabit
remote environments. This is especially relevant in the oceanic waters around New Zealand …