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Widespread distribution of Ceratonova shasta (Cnidaria: Myxosporea) genotypes indicates evolutionary adaptation to its salmonid fish hosts

Creator:

Stinson, Matthew E. T., Atkinson, Stephen D., and Bartholomew, Jerri L.

Abstract:

The distribution of the freshwater myxozoan parasite Ceratonova shasta in the Pacific Northwest of North America is limited to overlap in the ranges of its 2 hosts: the polychaete Manyunkia sp., and Pacific salmonids. Studies in the Klamath River (Oregon/California) and Deschutes River (Oregon), showed that the parasite population is...

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