Title: Disease processes in marine bivalve molluscs /
Authors: Fisher, William S.
Date: 1988
Publisher: American Fisheries Society,
Physical description: viii, 315 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: Major parasitic & pathological conditions, parasite morphology, strategy & evolution, host defences, environmental influence on host response, management practices and potential research tools & technology.
Contents: Bonamiasis : a model study of diseases in marine molluscs / Henri Grizel [and others] -- Uncertainties and speculations about the life cycle of the eastern oyster pathogen Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) / Harld H. Haskin and Jay D. Andrews -- Epizootic diseases of oysters associated with viral infections / Michel Comps -- Aber disease of edible oysters caused by Marteilia refringens / Antonio J. Figueras and Jaime Montes -- Epizootiology of the disease caused by the oyster pathogen Perkinsus marinus and its effects on the oyster industry / J.D. Andrews -- Mytilicola intestinalis, a copepod parasite of blue mussels / J.T. Davey and J.M. Gee -- Recent investigations on the disseminated sarcomas of marine bivalve molluscs / Esther C. Peters -- Structure of protistan parasites found in bivalve molluscs / Frank O. Perkins -- Strategies employed by parasites of marine bivalves to effect successful establishment in hosts / Thomas C. Cheng --^ Ecology and evolution of bivalve parasites / Antonio J. Figueras and William S. Fisher -- Infallmation and wound repair in bivalve molluscs / Albert K. Sparks and J. Frank Morado -- Cellular defense mechanisms of oysters and mussels / Sung Y. feng -- Bivalve hemocyte morphology / Michel Auufret -- Humoral disease factors in marine bivalves / Fu-Lin E. Chu -- Role of lectins in invertebrate humoral defense / Jan A. Olafsen -- Host-parasite interactions in eastern oysters selected for resistance to Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) disease : survival mechanisms against a natural pathogen / Susan E. Ford -- Environmental influence on bivalve hemocyte function / William S. Fisher -- Effects of anthropogenic agents in bivalve cellular and humoral defense mechanisms / Robert S. Anderson -- Management strategies to control diseases in the Dutch culture of edible oysters / P. van Banning --^ Circumvention of mortalities caused by Denman Island oyster disease during mariculture of Pacific oysters / Susan M. Bower -- Management strategies for MSX (Haplosporidium nelsoni) disease in eastern oysters / Susan E. Ford and Harold H. Haskin -- Management strategies to control the disease caused by Perkinsus marinus / Jay D. Andrews and Sammy M. Ray -- Summer mortality of Pacific oysters / J. Harold Beattie [and others] -- A physiological approach to the study of bivalve molluscan diseases / Roger I.E. Newell and Bruce J. Barber -- Cell separation by centrifugal elutriation / Evelyne Bachère, Dominique Chagot, and Henri Grizel -- Flow cytometry : a tool for cell research in bivalve pathology / William S. Fisher and Susan E. Ford -- Chemiluminescence : an advanced tool for measuring phagocytosis / Arieh Wishkovsky -- Use of immunoassays in haplosporidian life cycle studies / Eugene M. Burreson -- Monoclonal antibodies : a tool for molluscan pathology / Eric Miahle [and others] --^ Bivalve mollusc cell future / Eric Miahle, Viviane Boulo, and Henri Grizel.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bivalves--Diseases.; Bivalves--Parasites.; Mollusks--Diseases.; Mollusks--Parasites.