More than 90% of popular freshwater fish in Southern California are carrying human-infecting parasites, researchers say. This poses a significant danger for those who like to eat freshly caught ...

Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once 'invisible' fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to the apicomplexans, one of the most important groups of ...

Regularly we get questions about fish parasites. Last year a new parasite was discovered in the northeastern portion of Wisconsin in 10 lakes. Heterosporis, a microsposporidan parasite. The DNR is not ...

Katherine Maslenikov carefully plucked a young walleye pollock specimen from a glass jar full of ethyl alcohol. The critter’s eye and insides were missing, some carefully packed in a nearby vial ...

Nearly every single freshwater fish in Southern California may be riddled with parasites that could cause serious health issues in humans. However, the scientists who found the parasites said the ...

A UC San Diego study published Tuesday found that more than 90% of freshwater game fish in Southern California had parasites capable of infecting humans and causing health problems. The parasites are ...

Monogenean parasites represent a diverse group of flatworms that predominantly infest the gills and external surfaces of marine fish. These ectoparasites are of increasing concern for both wild ...

Cichlid fishes, renowned for their extraordinary speciation and adaptive radiation, provide an exceptional framework to explore evolutionary dynamics, particularly through the study of their parasites ...

Parasites that eat fish tongues and take their place in the mouth have been found in a batch of seabream arriving at a port in the U.K. The parasites, Cymothoa exigua, were first spotted in the ...