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Valles-Vega I, Pérez-Urbiola JC, Tovar-Ramírez D, Graham AL, Sicard-González T, Ascencio F. Immune response of the Almaco jack (Seriola rivoliana) against the infestation with Neobenedenia sp. in three cultivated temperatures. Parasitol Res 2024; 123:127. [PMID: 38332358 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-024-08135-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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The Almaco jack (Seriola rivoliana) is a marine fish maintained in mariculture systems and frequently infested by monogenean parasites like Neobenedenia sp. Severe infestations can lead to high mortalities and economic losses for farmers. This study evaluated the effects of temperature on the immune response on Almaco jack infested with Neobenedenia sp. We exposed infested fishes at temperatures of 20 °C, 24 °C, and 30 °C for 20 days and took samples of different tissues at the beginning of the experiment, and after 3 and 20 days. The tissues considered were the skin, thymus, cephalic kidney, and spleen to evaluate the relative gene expression of different genes: Hsp70, IgM, IL-1β, IL-10, and MyD88. Our results showed an increase in IL-1β gene expression in the skin after 20 days of infestation but no significant effect of temperature on gene expression, despite increases in infestation rates with temperature. Therefore, relative genetic expression was controlled by the number of parasites and the days post-infestation. These results show that the parasite infestation induced a local response in the skin, but that temperature has an indirect effect on the immune system of Almaco jack.
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- Isabel Valles-Vega
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) S.C., Km. 1, Carretera a San Juan de La Costa "El Comitán", 23097, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
- Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, Unidad Mazatlán en Acuicultura y Manejo Ambiental, 82112, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) S.C., Km. 1, Carretera a San Juan de La Costa "El Comitán", 23097, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) S.C., Km. 1, Carretera a San Juan de La Costa "El Comitán", 23097, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) S.C., Km. 1, Carretera a San Juan de La Costa "El Comitán", 23097, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) S.C., Km. 1, Carretera a San Juan de La Costa "El Comitán", 23097, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México.
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Narvaez P, Morais RA, Vaughan DB, Grutter AS, Hutson KS. Cleaner fish are potential super-spreaders. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:276034. [PMID: 35855672 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cleaning symbiosis is critical for maintaining healthy biological communities in tropical marine ecosystems. However, potential negative impacts of mutualism, such as the transmission of pathogens and parasites during cleaning interactions, have rarely been evaluated. Here, we investigated whether the dedicated bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus, is susceptible to, and can transmit generalist ectoparasites between client fish. In laboratory experiments, L. dimidiatus were exposed to infective stages of three generalist ectoparasite species with contrasting life-histories. Labroides dimidiatus were susceptible to infection by the gnathiid isopod, Gnathia aureamaculosa, but significantly less susceptible to the ciliate protozoan, Cryptocaryon irritans, and the monogenean flatworm, Neobenedenia girellae, compared to control host species (Coris batuensis or Lates calcarifer). The potential for parasite transmission from a client fish to the cleaner fish was simulated using experimentally transplanted mobile adult (i.e., egg-producing) monogenean flatworms on L. dimidiatus. Parasites remained attached to cleaners for an average of two days, during which parasite egg production continued, but was reduced compared to control fish. Over this timespan, a wild cleaner may engage in several thousand cleaning interactions, providing numerous opportunities for mobile parasites to exploit cleaners as vectors. Our study provides the first experimental evidence that L. dimidiatus exhibits resistance to infective stages of some parasites yet has the potential to temporarily transport adult parasites. We propose that some parasites that evade being eaten by cleaner fish could exploit cleaning interactions as a mechanism for transmission and spread.
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- Pauline Narvaez
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, 5 Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia.,College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia.,Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, 5 Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia.,College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia
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- School of Access Education, Central Queensland University, 554-700 Yaamba Road, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia.,Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre, Central Queensland University, 554-700 Yaamba Road, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia.,Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia.,Cawthron Institute, 98 Halifax Street East, Nelson 7010, New Zealand
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Zhang X, Shang B, Cheng Y, Wang G, Stojanovski S, Li W. Effects of different regimes of low temperature on egg hatching of Dactylogyrus vastator (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae). Exp Parasitol 2022; 240:108333. [PMID: 35850274 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2022.108333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The development of dactylogyrids is dependent on water temperature, and their eggs fail to hatch below 5 °C. In the field, however, mean abundance of Dactylogyrus species increases and reaches a high level in winter, which suggests that infective oncomiracidia hatch from eggs in winter. Therefore, the effect of low water temperature on in vitro egg hatching of D. vastator was determined in laboratory. D. vastator hatching success was 65.3%, 62.7%, 42.6% and 22.3% when eggs were firstly incubated for 0, 7, 14 and 21 days at 5 °C and then consecutively maintained for 15 days at 20 °C. When eggs were directly incubated at 5 °C, eggs failed to hatch within one month. However, hatching success was 69.8% and 66.7%, respectively, when maintained at 5 °C after 12 and 24 h incubation at 20 °C. The results suggested that egg incubation for more than 1 week at 5 °C had significant impacts on hatching success of D. vastator subsequently maintained at 20 °C. But low temperature (5 °C) had no effect on hatching success when eggs were firstly exposed to room temperature (20 °C) for one day.
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- Xiaoping Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Ministry of Agriculture, and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, PR China; Guizhou Fisheries Research Institute, Guiyang, 550025, PR China.
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- Guizhou Fisheries Research Institute, Guiyang, 550025, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Ministry of Agriculture, and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Ministry of Agriculture, and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Aquaculture Disease Control, Ministry of Agriculture, and State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, PR China.
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Irnidayanti Y, Reforina A, Andriyanto S. Effects of Extract of Betel Leaf (Piperaceae) against Ectoparasite "Ich" on Pangasius Catfish. Pak J Biol Sci 2021; 24:905-912. [PMID: 34486358 DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2021.905.912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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<b>Background and Objective:</b> Freshwater fish aquaculture in Indonesia has grown rapidly, especially the aquaculture of catfish (<i>Pangasianodon hypophthalmus</i>). This species is very good because it is fast-growing and very popular in the market and is important for national food security in many Asian countries. One of the problems faced by freshwater fish aquaculture is ectoparasite <i>Ichthyophthirius multifiliis</i> infection, which often results in significant economic losses to freshwater fish aquaculture. This study aimed to check the effect extract of betel leaf against the ectoparasite, <i>Ichthyophthirius multifiliis</i> in pangasius catfish in an eco-friendly manner. <b>Materials and Methods:</b> A total of 120 fishes with a mean weight of 4.17±0.96 g and a length of 8.5±0.67 cm were examined. Preliminary research was carried out to detect ectoparasites in fish. All fish was infected with ectoparasitic Ich (100%) and were identified as a salt-like granule white spot and a large C-shaped macronucleus. Infected fishes were transferred and equally distributed to the tank (20 L water) which had previously been treated with betel leaf extract for 24 hrs, 3 days, at doses 2.5, 5 and 7.5 g L<sup></sup><sup>1</sup> and control. <b>Results:</b> The results showed that the betel leaf extract solution effect decreased significantly to the number of ectoparasites <i>Ichthyophthirius multifiliis</i>, both in mucus and pangasius catfish and a dose of 7.5 g L<sup></sup><sup>1</sup> was the optimum dose. <b>Conclusion:</b> Betel leaf extract has the potential to control the decrease in the number of ectoparasites, though further phytochemical studies will need to be performed.
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