Salmon lice increase the age of returning Atlantic salmon
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Salmon lice increase the age of returning Atlantic salmon.
The global increase in the production of domestic farmed fish in open net pens has created concerns about the resilience of wild populations owing to shifts in host-parasite systems in coastal ecosystems. However, little is known about the effects of increased parasite abundance on life-history traits in wild fish populations. Here, we report the results of two separate studies in which 379 779...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0896