While the UK is the fourth largest aquaculture producer in Europe by volume, it is the second
largest by value with an annual first sale value of around£ 1 billion. Over 90% of this value is …

The protist phylum Haplosporidia comprises over 40 described species with representatives
infecting a range of mollusc hosts, including several ecologically and economically …

Vessel biofouling is a major pathway for the introduction, establishment, and subsequent
spread of marine non-indigenous macro-organisms. As a result, national and international …

Cryptocaryoniasis is one of the devastating protozoal diseases present in marine fish
species, leading to high mortality in the fish aquaculture. Recently, white spot disease …

The decline of the European oyster Ostrea edulis across its biogeographic range has been
driven largely by over-fishing and anthropogenic habitat destruction, often to the point of …

Suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs are confronted with a wide range of materials in the
benthic marine environment. These materials include various sized plankton and the …

Several Vibrio species are known to be pathogenic to the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas.
Survival varies according to pathogen exposure and high mortality events usually occur in …

Environmental DNA approaches are increasingly used to detect microorganisms in
environmental compartments, including water. They show considerable advantages to study …

Bonamia ostreae is an intracellular protistan parasite affecting flat oysters Ostrea edulis. It
can be detected in juveniles but mortalities mainly affect oysters which are more than 2 …

In the fifty years since the introduction of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas and the first
reports of the parasites Marteilia refringens and Bonamia ostreae in European waters …