Title |
Variation in spatial and temporal incidence of the crustacean pathogen Hematodinium perezi in environmental samples from Atlantic Coastal Bays
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Published in |
Aquatic Biosystems, May 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/2046-9063-9-11 |
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Authors |
Ammar W Hanif, Whitney D Dyson, Holly A Bowers, Joseph S Pitula, Gretchen A Messick, Rosemary Jagus, Eric J Schott |
Abstract |
Hematodinium perezi, a parasitic dinoflagellate, infects and kills blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. The parasite proliferates within host hemolymph and tissues, and also produces free-swimming biflagellated dinospores that emerge from infected crabs. Infections in C. sapidus recur annually, and it is not known if biotic or environmental reservoirs contribute to reinfection and outbreaks. To address this data gap, a quantitative PCR assay based on the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region of H. perezi rRNA genes was developed to asses the temporal and spatial incidence of the parasite in Delaware and Maryland coastal bays. |
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