Sentence examples for fish host from inspiring English sources

Marine leeches, however, attach permanently to their fish host.

Now, the salty drying waters which had dwindled and contained only a single species of fish, host 15 different species of fish and more birds, reptiles and plants, says a report by the Kazakhstan government.

These species produce glochidia larvae that need to attach to a suitable fish host to survive.

We found that the C. shasta population was highly structured spatially, temporally and with respect to fish host species.

Responsiveness of fish host immunity to helminth antigens may therefore vary depending on the degree of host-parasite counter-adaptation.

Their free swimming larva, the oncomiracidium, hatches from eggs, invades a fish host and metamorphoses into a post-oncomiracidial larval stage, the diporpa.

An experimental study was designed to investigate the life cycle of Paradiplozoon homoion (Monogenea, Diplozoidae) parasitizing their common fish hosts, gudgeon (Gobio gobio).

Chemical cues, or semiochemicals, are used by parasitic sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) not only in the identification and location of host salmonid fish, but also in the avoidance of unsuitable fish hosts.

The PCR RFLP profiles might be useful for diagnosing mixed O. viverrini and H. taichui infections in endemic areas, and for detecting metacercariae of O. viverrini, C. sinensis and H. taichui in epidemiological surveys of infections in fish hosts.

Myxospores, which develop from sporogonic cell stages inside fish hosts, are lenticular.

Epithelial feeding monopisthocotyleans on fish hosts are basal in the Neodermata and were the first shift to parasitism from free living ancestors.