Name - Caligus fugu

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1277424 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Caligus fugu Yamaguti & Yamasu 1959

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Species

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• First Record of Two Species of Parasitic Copepods on Immigrant Pufferfishes (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) Caught in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
• Screening of candidate genes encoding proteins expressed in pectoral fins of fugu Takifugu rubripes, in relation to habitat site of parasitic copepod Caligus fugu, using suppression subtractive hybridization.
• The cephalothoracic sucker of sea lice (Crustacea: Copepoda: Caligidae): The functional importance of cuticular membrane ultrastructure.
• Evidence of accumulation of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in tissues and body parts of ectoparasitic copepods via their feeding on mucus of TTX-bearing pufferfish.
• De novo transcriptomic analysis to identify candidate genes potentially related to host recognition during infective stage of Caligus fugu (Crustacea: Copepoda).

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