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Alternate Title
Diatoms in the Gills of the Commercial White Shrimp
Document Type
Short Communication
Abstract
A white shrimp from Galveston, Texas, is the first reported case of a crustacean internally infected by a diatom. Even though more than one species occurred in debris on and between gill filaments, only individuals of Amphora sp. occurred within gills. To determine if a related diatom would easily reproduce within the shrimp and cause. a host-response similar to that observed, we injected cultured specimens of A. coffaeformis into white shrimp. Under the experimental conditions, individuals of that species did not divide, but they elicited an extensive melanistic host-response.
First Page
421
Last Page
422
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Recommended Citation
Overstreet, R. M. and S. Safford.
1980.
Diatoms in the Gills of the Commercial White Shrimp.
Gulf Research Reports
6
(4):
421-422.
Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol6/iss4/10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18785/grr.0604.10
