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The South American lungfish Lepidosiren paradoxa as a new host for Trichodina quelenii

O lungfish sul-americano Lepidosiren paradoxa como novo hospedeiro para Trichodina quelenii

Abstract

Recently, the South American lungfish Lepidosiren paradoxa is being found inside aquaculture ponds, and even though there are a few studies on their parasite fauna, there is still much to be reported. Thus, the objective of this study is to report parasitism by trichodinids in L. paradoxa, as these ciliate protozoa are related to injuries and mortality in fish farming. The lungfish were collected from experimental tanks, had their tegument scraped and the resultant mucus was analyzed under an optical microscope for morphological and morphometrical analyses in Giemsa and silver nitrate stained slides. The species found was identified as Trichodina quelleni. This is the first report of this parasite in L. paradoxa, and the second report in cultivated fish in Brazil.

Keywords:
aquaculture; ectoparasites; invasive species; trichodinids

Resumo

Recentemente, o peixe pulmonado sul-americano Lepidosiren paradoxa tem sido encontrado em tanques de cultivo da aquicultura e, embora existam alguns estudos sobre a fauna de parasitas neste hospedeiro, ainda há muito a ser relatado. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo é relatar o parasitismo por tricodinídeos em L. paradoxa, pois esses protozoários ciliados estão relacionados a lesões e mortalidade na piscicultura. Os peixes foram coletados de tanques experimentais, tiveram seu tegumento raspado e o muco resultante foi analisado sob um microscópio óptico para análises morfológicas e morfométricas em lâminas impregnadas com Nitrato de Prata e com Giemsa. Os espécimes encontrados foram identificados como Trichodina quelleni. Este é o primeiro registro deste parasita em L. paradoxa, e a segunda ocorrência de Trichodina quelenii em peixes cultivados no Brasil.

Palavras-chave:
aquicultura; ectoparasitas; espécies invasoras; tricodinídeos

1. Introduction

Trichodinids are ciliate protozoa with broad geographic distribution ( Maciel et al., 2017 MACIEL, P.O., GARCIA, F., CHAGAS, E.C., FUJIMOTO, R.Y. and TAVARES-DIAS, M., 2017. Trichodinidae in commercial fish in South America. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries , vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 33-56. ). These parasites can establish a comensal or parasitic relationship with several vertebrate and a few invertebrate hosts, such as molluscs ( Xu et al., 1999 XU, K., SONG, W. and WARREN, A., 1999. Trichodinid ectoparasites (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) from the gills of mariculture molluscs in China, with the descriptions of four new species of Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1838. Systematic Parasitology , vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 229-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006071106844. PMid:10613541.
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; Xu et al., 2000 XU, K., SONG, W. and WARREN, A., 2000. Observations on trichodinid ectoparasites (Ciliophora: Peritricha) from the gills of maricultured molluscs in China, with descriptions of three new species of Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1838. Systematic Parasitology , vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 17-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1006284629307. PMid:10682920.
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; Hertel et al., 2004 HERTEL, L.A., BARBOSA, C.S., SANTOS, R.A.A.L. and LOKER, E.S., 2004. Molecular identification of symbionts from the pulmonate snail Biomphalaria glabrata in Brazil. The Journal of Parasitology, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 759-763. http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/GE-223R. PMid:15357065.
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;), crustaceans ( Silva et al., 2009 SILVA, W.M., ROCHE, K.F., DE VICENTE, F.S. and DELBEN, A.A., 2009. First record of the peritrich Trichodina diaptomi Basson and Van As, 1991 (Protozoa: Ciliophora) on a South American calanoid Notodiaptomus deitersi (Poppe, 1890) (Crustacea: Copepoda). The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 385-385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00414.x. PMid:19602084.
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; West et al., 2016 WEST, D., BASSON, L. and VAN AS, J., 2016. Trichodina diaptomi Ciliophora: Peritrichia from two calanoid copepods from Botswana and South Africa, with notes on its life history. Acta Protozoologica, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 161-171. https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.16.016.5748.
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), amphibians ( Dias et al., 2009 DIAS, R.J., FERNANDES, N.M., SARTINI, B., DA SILVA-NETO, I.D. and D’AGOSTO, M., 2009. Occurrence of Trichodina heterodentata (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) infesting tadpoles of Rhinella pombali (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Neotropical area. Parasitology International, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 471-474. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2009.06.009. PMid:19580885.
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), waterfowl ( Carnaccini et al., 2016 CARNACCINI, S., LOWENSTINE, L.J., SENTÍES-CUÉ, C.G., NYAOKE, A., BLAND, M., BICKFORD, A.A., SHIVAPRASAD, H.L. and STOUTE, S.T., 2016. Trichodinosis associated with pathology of the reproductive tract in waterfowl. Avian Pathology , vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 418-425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03079457.2016.1153798. PMid:26926786.
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) and fishs ( Valladão et al., 2013 VALLADÃO, G.M., PÁDUA, S.B., GALLANI, S.U., MENEZES-FILHO, R.N., DIAS-NETO, J., MARTINS, M.L., ISHIKAWA, M.M. and PILARSKI, F., 2013. Paratrichodina africana (Ciliophora): a pathogenic gill parasite in farmed Nile tilapia. Veterinary Parasitology, vol. 197, no. 3-4, pp. 705-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.04.043. PMid:23731856.
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). These parasites are often observed in wild and cultured freshwater marine and freshwater fish ( Tantry et al., 2016 TANTRY, T.A., NAZIR, R., CHISHTI, M.Z., AHMAD, F., DAR, G.H. and DAR, J.S., 2016. A report on the incidence of Trichodina heterodentata from fishes of Jammu, J&K, India. Journal of Parasitic Diseases: Official Organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology , vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 524-527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12639-014-0538-z. PMid:27413332.
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), affecting the skin, gills, urinary bladder, and reproductive system of fishes ( Asmat, 2001 ASMAT, G.S., 2001. Trichodina canningensis sp. n. (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) from an Indian estuarine fish, Mystus gulio (Hamilton) (Bagridae). Acta Protozoologica, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 147-152. ).

Among the trichodinids, the genus Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1838 is the most diverse, with more than 200 species affecting fish ( Asmat et al., 2005 ASMAT, G.S., AFROZ, F. and MOHAMMAD, N., 2005. Four new species of Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1830 (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) from Bangladesh fishes. Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 23-29. ). In Brazil, studies regarding this group of parasites is recent but, due to the economical losses they can cause in fish farming, interest in these ciliates is increasing ( Dias et al., 2009 DIAS, R.J., FERNANDES, N.M., SARTINI, B., DA SILVA-NETO, I.D. and D’AGOSTO, M., 2009. Occurrence of Trichodina heterodentata (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) infesting tadpoles of Rhinella pombali (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Neotropical area. Parasitology International, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 471-474. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2009.06.009. PMid:19580885.
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). To date, the species of tricodinids found in native Brazilian fish have been Trichodina heterodentata in Piaractus mesopotamicus and Prochilodus lineatus ( Pádua et al., 2012 PÁDUA, S.B., MARTINS, M.L., CARRASCHI, S.P., CRUZ, C. and ISHIKAWA, M.M., 2012. Trichodina heterodentata (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae): a new parasite for Piaractus mesopotamicus (Pisces: Characidae). Zootaxa, vol. 3422, pp. 62-68. ; Valladão et al., 2014 VALLADÃO, G.M., GALLANI, S.U., DE PÁDUA, S.B., MARTINS, M.L. and PILARSKI, F., 2014. Trichodina heterodentata (Ciliophora) infestation on Prochilodus lineatus larvae: a host-parasite relationship study. Parasitology , vol. 141, no. 5, pp. 662-669. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182013001480. PMid:24476792.
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), Trichodina colisae in P. mesopotamicus and Piaractus brachypomus ( Jerônimo et al., 2012 JERÔNIMO, G.T., MARCHIORI, N.D.C., PÁDUA, S.B.D., DIAS NETO, J., PILARSKI, F., ISHIKAWA, M.M. and MARTINS, M.L., 2012. Trichodina colisae (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) new parasite records for two freshwater fish species farmed in Brazil . Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária , vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 366-371. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1984-29612012005000008. PMid:23207983.
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), and Trichodina quelenii in Rhamdia quelen and Gymnotus sp. ( Hashimoto et al., 2016 HASHIMOTO, G.S.O., MARCHIORI, N.C., PÁDUA, S.B., ISHIKAWA, M.M., GARCIA, J.R.E. and MARTINS, M.L., 2016. A new species of Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1830 (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) from Rhamdia quelen (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) -and Gymnotus sp. (Teleostei: Gymnotidae) in Brazil. Acta Parasitologica , vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 707-712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ap-2016-0099. PMid:27787214.
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).

There are six species representing the lungfishs worldwide, with only one species registered in South America: Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger, 1837 ( Mesquita-Saad et al., 2002 MESQUITA-SAAD, L.S.B., LEITÃO, M.A.B., PAULA-SILVA, M.N., CHIPPARI-GOMES, A.R. and ALMEIDA-VAL, V.M.F., 2002. Specialized metabolism and biochemical suppression during aestivation of the extant South American lungfish --Lepidosiren paradoxa. Brazilian Journal of Biology = Revista Brasileira de Biologia, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 495-501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1519-69842002000300014. PMid:12530187.
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; Lainson and Ribeiro, 2006 LAINSON, R. and RIBEIRO, L., 2006. Eimeria lepidosirenis n. sp.(Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) of the South American lungfish Lepidosiren paradoxa (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi) from Amazonian Brazil. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, vol. 101, no. 3, pp. 327-329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762006000300018. PMid:16862331.
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). The South American lungfish is native to the Amazon and Paraná-Paraguay basins. These animals inhabit lentic or low current environments, and support low concentrations of dissolved oxygen in water ( Almeida-Val et al., 2016 ALMEIDA-VAL, V.M.F., NOZAWA, S.R., LOPES, N.P., ARIDE, P.H.R., MESQUITA-SAAD, L.S., SILVA, M.D.N.P. and VAL, A.L., 2016. Biology of the South American lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa. In: J.M. JORGENSEN and J. JOSS eds., The biology of lungfishes. New Hampshire: Science Publishers, pp. 129. ). There are a few records of parasitism in South American lungfish, with registers of Haemogregarina lepidosirenis ( Jepps, 1927 JEPPS, M.W., 1927. Note on a haemogregarine in Lepidosiren paradoxa. Parasitology, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 285-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182000005722.
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), Agarella gracilis ( Dunkerly, 1915 DUNKERLY, J.S., 1915. Agarella gracilis, a new genus and species of Myxosporidian, parasitic in Lepidosiren paradoxa. Proceedings. Section A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol. 19, pp. 213-219. ; Vita et al., 2004 VITA, P., CORRAL, L., MATOS, E. and AZEVEDO, C., 2004. Ultrastructural description of Agarella gracilis Dunkerly, 1915 (Myxozoa, Chloromyxidae) parasite of the dipnoan Lepidosiren paradoxa from the River Amazon. European Journal of Protistology, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 213-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2004.03.001.
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), and Eimeria lepidosirenis ( Lainson and Ribeiro, 2006 LAINSON, R. and RIBEIRO, L., 2006. Eimeria lepidosirenis n. sp.(Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) of the South American lungfish Lepidosiren paradoxa (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi) from Amazonian Brazil. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, vol. 101, no. 3, pp. 327-329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762006000300018. PMid:16862331.
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). Thus, the objective of this study is to report parasitism by trichodinids in this host, contributing to the knowledge of its parasite fauna.

2. Material and Methods

The studied specimens of Lepidosiren paradoxa came from the São Paulo State University (CAUNESP), on the Jaboticabal campus, state of São Paulo, Brazil. They were kept in 1000 L tanks at a water level of 1 m and controled temperature at 25 °C ± 1 °C at all times.

Body surface mucus smears were prepared on slides for fresh analysis under a microscope. The smears were dried at room temperature and impregnated with silver nitrate 2% to observe the adhesive disk morphology, as reported by Klein (1958) KLEIN, B.M., 1958. The dry silver method and its proper use. The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 99-103. . Other smears were stained with Giemsa for further study of nuclear structures, as suggested by Lom (1958) LOM, J., 1958. A contribution to the systematics and morphology of endoparasitic trichodinids from amphibians, with a proposal of uniform specific characteristics. The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 251-263. .

The measurements of 100 specimens, obtained with the Moticam 2300 attached to a Nikon E200 microscope, were expressed in milimetes as arithmetic means ± standard deviation followed, in parentheses, by the minimum and maximum values and the number of measured structures. In addition, schematic drawings of the denticles, as proposed by Van As and Basson (1989) VAN AS, J.G. and BASSON, L., 1989. A further contribution to the taxonomy of the Trichodinidae (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) and a review of the taxonomic status of some fish ectoparasitic trichodinids. Systematic Parasitology, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 157-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02187051.
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, were produced by means of vectorization, with CorelDraw® X5 software.

3. Results

The population of Trichodina sp. parasitizing L. paradoxa was classified as a medium-sized trichodinids, with the morphometric data presented in Table 1 . The morphology of the trichodinids found has a broad blade, exceeding the axis y + 1. Anterior margin slightly developed, almost parallel to the distal margin. Apophysis of the prominent blade. Posterior margin of the concave blade. Presence of posterior projection not well developed in some specimens. Well-developed central part with rounded end, located between the axes and + 1 and y-1. Discrete ray apophysis. Well-developed ray, thick, rounded end protruding posteriorly. The macronucleus is present in some trichodinids (51 specimens), as well as a micronucleus (21 specimens) located in the +y position, the first description of this structure being in Trichodina quelenii ( Figure 1 ). According to the morphology and morphometry the trichodinids found resemble the species Trichodina quelenii.

Table 1
Morphometric data (μm) of the trichodinids found in Lepidosiren paradoxa in comparison with the morphometric data of the first report of Trichodina quelenii in two different hosts, Rhamdia quelen and Gymnotus sp.
Figure 1
Trichodina quelenii stained with 2% silver nitrate (a); Trichodina quelenii stained with Giemsa with evidence of the macronucleus and micronucleus in position +y (b); Schematic drawing of denticles (c).

4. Discussion

There are no reports of any trichodinids in L. paradoxa so far. There is only a recent report of the genus Trichodina sp. infesting the African lungfish Protopterus annectens, but with low prevalence, 3.25% in the dry season and 2.83% in the rainy season ( Omeji et al., 2017 OMEJI, S., OBANDE, R.A. and SOLOMON, S.G., 2017. Morphological and parasitological variations of African lungfish, Protopterus annectens in dry and rainy seasons. Journal of Research in Forestry Wildlife and Environment, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 104-113. ).

This is the second report of Trichodina quelenii, the first description being in the studied host. The first report was made in Brazil in two different hosts, Gymnotus sp. of natural environment and Rhamdia quelen coming from natural environment and fishfarm. ( Hashimoto et al., 2016 HASHIMOTO, G.S.O., MARCHIORI, N.C., PÁDUA, S.B., ISHIKAWA, M.M., GARCIA, J.R.E. and MARTINS, M.L., 2016. A new species of Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1830 (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) from Rhamdia quelen (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) -and Gymnotus sp. (Teleostei: Gymnotidae) in Brazil. Acta Parasitologica , vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 707-712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ap-2016-0099. PMid:27787214.
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). The morphometric and morphologic descriptions are similar, even though we observed the presence of micronucleus in some specimens, a characteristic not reported in the original description of this species. Trichodinids are important parasites in the production systems of several species of fish, because the accumulation of organic matter in association with high storage densities causes an environmental imbalance that facilitates the multiplication and dissemination of the parasite. The genus Trichodina has been reported in several species of fish, causing damage to epithelial and epidermal cells ( Ovcharenko, 2015 OVCHARENKO, M., 2015. Microparasites of worldwide mullets. Annals of Parasitology , vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 229-239. PMid:26878619. ), epithelial hypertrophy and vacuolar degeneration ( Abdel-Baki et al., 2011 ABDEL-BAKI, A.S., SAKRAN, T., FAYED, H. and ZAYED, E., 2011. Trichodina fahaka (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) in Tetradon fahaka from Nile River, Egypt: seasonality and histopathology. Scientific Research and Essays, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1583-1587. ), areas of inflammatory infiltration ( Valladão et al., 2013 VALLADÃO, G.M., PÁDUA, S.B., GALLANI, S.U., MENEZES-FILHO, R.N., DIAS-NETO, J., MARTINS, M.L., ISHIKAWA, M.M. and PILARSKI, F., 2013. Paratrichodina africana (Ciliophora): a pathogenic gill parasite in farmed Nile tilapia. Veterinary Parasitology, vol. 197, no. 3-4, pp. 705-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.04.043. PMid:23731856.
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), areas of desquamation and suction in the tegument ( Valladão et al., 2016 VALLADÃO, G.M.R., ALVES, L.O. and PILARSKI, F., 2016. Trichodiniasis in Nile tilapia hatcheries: Diagnosis, parasite: host-stage relationship and treatment. Aquaculture (Amsterdam, Netherlands), vol. 451, pp. 444-450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2015.09.030.
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) caused by the excessive spoliation that allows the consequent installation of bacterial infections ( Plumb, 1997 PLUMB, J.A. 1997. Infections diseases of tilapia. In: B.A. COSTAPIERCE and J.E. RAKOCY, eds. Tilapia aquaculture in the Americas. Baton Rouge: World Aquaculture Society, pp. 212-218. ) and mortality may occur in severely parasitized fish ( Xu et al., 2015 XU, D.H., SHOEMAKER, C.A. and ZHANG, D., 2015. Treatment of Trichodina sp. reduced load of Flavobacterium columnare and improved survival of hybrid tilapia. Aquaculture Reports, vol. 2, pp. 126-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2015.09.007.
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).

The South American lungfish is a highly resistant fish that supports extreme environmental conditions and is therefore found to be introduced into rivers, thus increasing its range, leading to risk for native and cultured fish populations ( Arantes et al., 2016 ARANTES, F.P., SANTOS, J.E. and BAZZOLI, N., 2016. Primeiro registro de Lepidosiren paradoxa, (Lepidosireniformes: Lepidosirenidae) para ao Rio Paraopeba, Bacia do Rio São Francisco, Brasil. Conexão Ciência (Online) , vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 9-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24862/cco.v11i1.402.
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). Their presence inside tanks of aquatic organisms is an important source of multiplication and dispersion of trichodinids in breeding systems, thus becoming a potential risk of contagion in this situation. The first report of this parasite under cultivation was in Rhamdia quelen, in the state of Santa Catarina ( Hashimoto et al., 2016 HASHIMOTO, G.S.O., MARCHIORI, N.C., PÁDUA, S.B., ISHIKAWA, M.M., GARCIA, J.R.E. and MARTINS, M.L., 2016. A new species of Trichodina Ehrenberg, 1830 (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) from Rhamdia quelen (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) -and Gymnotus sp. (Teleostei: Gymnotidae) in Brazil. Acta Parasitologica , vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 707-712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ap-2016-0099. PMid:27787214.
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), but possibly other reports may occur due to the restricted contact between L. paradoxa and other fish grown on a larger scale in Brazil, such as Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) or native fish such as pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus ) and tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum). Thus, further studies should be carried out to elucidate the possible biological role of parasitic dispersant of L. paradoxa, in commercial fish culture environments, in order to prevent diseases, reducing financial expenses due to producion losses or mortality caused by trichodinids parasitism.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr. Glauber dos Santos Ferreira da Silva by fish donation.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    13 Aug 2018
  • Date of issue
    Apr-Jun 2019

History

  • Received
    12 Sept 2017
  • Accepted
    13 Nov 2017
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