The life cycle of marine Eubothrium sp. (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea), from Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) was experimentally completed in one year and included only one intermediate host (Acartia tonsa Dana) (Copepoda: Calanoida). Adult cestodes were collected from farmed salmon, and ripe eggs released by the cestodes were fed to Acartia tonsa. Ingested eggs hatched in the gut and the larvae de...

Since the first description of Marteilia refringens (Paramyxea) in flat oysters Ostrea edulis in 1968 in the Aber Wrach, Brittany (France), the life-cycle of this parasite has remained unknown. However, recent studies, conducted in the 'claire' system, have proposed the planktonic copepod Acartia grani as a potential intermediate host for the parasite. Nevertheless, experimental transmission of...

Human-induced salinization increasingly threatens inland waters; yet we know little about the multifaceted response of lake communities to salt contamination. By conducting a coordinated mesocosm experiment across 16 sites in North America and Europe, quantified zooplankton abundance (taxonomic functional) community structure broad gradient environmentally relevant chloride concentrations, rang...

Although the Mediterranean area is a well-known hotspot of biological diversity, crustacean assemblages inhabiting inland waters islands are to date unevenly known, and detailed information missing for most taxa areas. In frame this paper, we provide checklist characterization copepod fauna lentic water bodies occurring in traditional rural landscape Sicily, where co-existence agriculture, wood...