Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Date of this Version
1980
Abstract
A white shrimp from Galveston, Texas, is the first reported case of a crustacean internally infected by a diatom. Even though more than one species occurred in debris on and between gill filaments, only individuals of Amphora sp. occurred within gills. To determine if a related diatom would easily reproduce within the shrimp and cause. a host response similar to that observed, we injected cultured specimens of A. coffaeformis into white shrimp. Under the experimental conditions, individuals of that species did not divide, but they elicited an extensive melanistic host-response.
Comments
Published in Gulf Research Reports (1980) 6(4): 421-422. Copyright 1980, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Used by permission.