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Crayfish epidemics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Helen Pixell Goodrich
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

Extract

Epidemics in English crayfish, Astacus pallipes, were found to be due to micro-sporidia and yeasts similar to, if not identical with, those causing diseases in another Crustacean, namely, Gammarus pulex, in many parts of England.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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