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Alternate Title
A Filamentous Bacterium on the Brine Shrimp and Its Control
Document Type
Article
Abstract
A strain of a colorless, filamentous bacterium (tentatively identified as Leucothrix mucor) heavily infests the brine shrimp, Artemia salina. Its ultrastructure, unlike that of some other strains, does not reveal a distinct middle layer between its outer cell wall layer and cytoplasmic membrane, irregular blebs extending from the cell layers, or an external sheath. An entire infestation, represented as a mat of the bacterium with associated debris and microorganisms, sloughs from the shrimp when exposed to a variety of treatments. Primarily because most effective treatments are toxic to the shrimp, 100 ppm terramycin provides the treatment of choice.
First Page
275
Last Page
281
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Recommended Citation
Solangi, M. A., R. M. Overstreet and A. L. Gannam.
1979.
A Filamentous Bacterium on the Brine Shrimp and Its Control.
Gulf Research Reports
6
(3):
275-281.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol6/iss3/8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0603.08
