RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF NEPHRITIS

Recent Contributions to the Knowledge of the Skates of Alaska

the wor primarily benthic fishes found throughout ld’s oceans from tropical to cold temperate latitudes. The fishes of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al., 2002), the most recent inventory of Alaska’s fishes, lists 12 species of skates known to occur in the Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Bering Sea from the intertidal zone to depths of over 1500 m, and at least 2 other species have been discovere...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Recent advances in our knowledge of the Myxozoa.

In the last few years two factors have helped to significantly advance our understanding of the Myxozoa. First, the phenomenal increase in fin fish aquaculture in the 1990s has lead to the increased importance of these parasites; in turn this has lead to intensified research efforts, which have increased knowledge of the development, diagnosis. and pathogenesis of myxozoans. The hallmark discov...

Recent advances in our knowledge of Australian anisakid nematodes

Anisakidosis is an emerging infection associated with a wide range of clinical syndromes in humans caused by members of the family Anisakidae. Anisakid nematodes have a cosmopolitan distribution and infect a wide range of invertebrates and vertebrates during their life cycles. Since the first report of these parasites in humans during the early 60s, anisakid nematodes have attracted considerabl...

Recent Advances in Our Knowledge about Vitamin B1