A global review of problematic and pathogenic parasites of farmed tilapia

AP Shinn, A Avenant‐Oldewage… - Reviews in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions

A Marcer, AD Chapman, JR Wieczorek… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural history collections (NHCs) represent an enormous and largely untapped wealth of
information on the Earth's biota, made available through GBIF as digital preserved specimen …

Is the world wormier than it used to be? We'll never know without natural history collections

CL Wood, MPM Vanhove - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many disease ecologists and conservation biologists believe that the world is wormier than it
used to be—that is, that parasites are increasing in abundance through time. This argument …

Dactylogyridae 2022: a meta-analysis of phylogenetic studies and generic diagnoses of parasitic flatworms using published genetic and morphological data

N Kmentová, AJ Cruz-Laufer, A Pariselle… - International Journal for …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dactylogyridae is one of the most studied families of parasitic flatworms with more than 1000
species and 166 genera described to date including ecto-and endoparasites. Dactylogyrid …

Explosive networking: the role of adaptive host radiations and ecological opportunity in a species‐rich host–parasite assembly

AJ Cruz‐Laufer, T Artois, S Koblmüller… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many species‐rich ecological communities emerge from adaptive radiation events. Yet the
effects of adaptive radiation on community assembly remain poorly understood. Here, we …

Sharing is caring? Barcoding suggests co-introduction of dactylogyrid monogeneans with Nile tilapia and transfer towards native tilapias in sub-Saharan Africa

M Geraerts, T Huyse, M Barson, H Bassirou… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Elsevier
Invasive Nile tilapias negatively impact native tilapia species through hybridisation and
competition. However, the co-introduction of parasites with Nile tilapia, and subsequent …

How to use natural history collections to resurrect information on historical parasite abundances

CL Wood, KL Leslie, D Claar, N Mastick… - Journal of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Many of the most contentious questions that concern the ecology of helminths could be
resolved with data on helminth abundance over the past few decades or centuries, but …

The cichlid–Cichlidogyrus network: a blueprint for a model system of parasite evolution

AJ Cruz-Laufer, T Artois, K Smeets, A Pariselle… - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
Species interactions are a key aspect of evolutionary biology. Parasites, specifically, are
drivers of the evolution of species communities and impact biosecurity and public health …

[HTML][HTML] Mosaic or melting pot: The use of monogeneans as a biological tag and magnifying glass to discriminate introduced populations of Nile tilapia in sub-Saharan …

M Geraerts, T Huyse, M Barson, H Bassirou… - Genomics, 2022 - Elsevier
The origin of introduced Nile tilapia stocks in sub-Saharan Africa is largely unknown. In this
study, the potential of monogeneans as a biological tag and magnifying glass is tested to …