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Journal of Plankton Research, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbp026
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Epibiotic suctorians and enigmatic ecto- and endoparasitoid dinoflagellates of euphausiid eggs (Euphausiacea) off Oregon, USA

Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez1,2,*, So Kawaguchi2 and Stephen Nicol2

1 Departamento de Plancton Y Ecologia Marina, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, A.P. 592, C.P. 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico 2 Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and Arts, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania 7050, Australia

* CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: jagomezg{at}ipn.mx

Received on January 15, 2009; accepted on April 8, 2009


  Abstract

We discovered euphausiid eggs infested with epibiotic suctorian ciliates (Ephelotidae), with ectoparasitoid blastodinian dinoflagellates (Chytriodinium sp.), and infected with unidentified endoparasitoid syndinian-like dinoflagellates. The discovery of two parasitoid protists suggests an unquantified source of embryonic mortality and a potential control on euphausiid larval recruitment rates.

Corresponding editor: Mark J. Gibbons


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