Over the past 80 years, tilapia have been translocated globally for aquaculture; active
production is recorded in> 124 countries. Of 7 million tonnes of tilapia produced in …

The Asian fish tapeworm (AFT), Schyzocotyle acheilognathi, is a notorious and highly
successful invasive parasite reported in a wide spectrum of freshwater fishes, and new …

Aquaculture has been documented as the fastest developing food industry in Kenya with
increased production since the Government initiated the Economic Stimulus Programme …

In this study, the relationships of the cestode order Bothriocephalidea, parasites of marine
and freshwater bony fish, were assessed using multi-gene molecular phylogenetic analyses …

The global translocation and introduction of freshwater fish into non-native regions has
created the perfect opportunity for the co-introduction of their parasites. In a recent review on …

Diplostomid trematodes comprise a large and diverse group of widespread digeneans
whose larval stages are important parasitic pathogens that may exert serious impacts in wild …

One of the most widely distributed African freshwater fish is the African sharptooth catfish
Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) that is naturally distributed in 8 of the 10 ichthyofaunal regions …

Abstract Goldfish, Carassius auratus Linnaeus, 1758, are immensely popular ornamental
cyprinid fish, traded in more than 100 countries. For more than 500 years, human …

Fish gut is a versatile organ serving as the primary pathway for invasion by pathogens,
particularly parasites, playing a crucial role in modulating the intestinal adaptive immune …

Although phylogenetic frameworks existed for some orders prior to the Planetary Biodiversity
Inventory (PBI) project (ie, Trypanorhyncha [see Palm et al., 2009]“Tetraphyllidea”[see Olson …