La comparación de las variaciones en el tiempo cronológico y en el espacio es uno de los aspectos menos estudiados en la ecología de las comunidades de parásitos. Por eso, en este estudio se compara la abundancia total, ...

Udonella australis is a platyhelminth that lives on the surface of the ectoparasite copepods Caligus rogercresseyi and Lepeophtheirus mugiloidis, which coexist on the Chilean rock cod Eleginops maclovinus. The absence of ...

Caligus rogercresseyi is a sea louse of native and farmed fish in southern Chile. Due to the impact that this copepod has on the Chilean salmonid production, it is necessary to search for control mechanisms that can ...

The ectoparasitic copepod, Caligus flexispina, is causing increasing problems in farmed salmonids in southern Chile. Field and experimental approaches were used to assess whether any of the three host species, rainbow trout ...