This review addresses the biodiversity, biology, distribution, ecology, epidemiology, and
consumer health significance of the so far known species of Anisakis, both in their natural …

Seas and oceans represent the largest continuous ecosystem on our planet, comprising a
total area of about 360 million km2 and an estimated volume of 1375 billion km3 (Hempel et …

Marine nematodes of the genus Anisakis are common parasites of a wide range of aquatic
organisms. Public interest is primarily based on their importance as zoonotic agents of the …

Parasites of the nematode genus Anisakis are associated with aquatic organisms. They can
be found in a variety of marine hosts including whales, crustaceans, fish and cephalopods …

abstract Members of the Anisakidae are known to infect over 200 pelagic fish species and
have been frequently used as biological tags to identify fish populations. Despite information …

Parasites can be used as biological tags to assess stock structures in various marine fish
species. In the present study, the species composition and infection levels of parasitic …

Abstract Pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792), a native of the North
Pacific Ocean, is an invasive fish species rapidly expanding in the North Atlantic, the …

Anisakid nematodes parasitize mainly fish, marine mammals and/or fish-eating birds, and
can be transmitted to a range of fish-eating mammals, including humans, where they can …

Identification leaflet for Anisakis larvae (" herringworm"; Nematoda) in fish, including a
description of susceptible species, geographic distribution, associated environmental …

This study, aimed at testing the hypothesis that some mitochondrial genes can serve as
species-specific markers, involved a comparison of the sequence variance of selected …