Fish mucus layers are the main surface of exchange between fish and the environment, and
they possess important biological and ecological functions. Fish mucus research is …

Parasite species have been widely used as fish host migration tag or as indicators of local
pollution. In this paper our approach is to consider the entire parasite community as a …

Data on parasites of Mediterranean Sea fishes, collected from previous published surveys,
were used to test 5 hypotheses concerning the determinants of parasite species richness. A …

With broad distributions, diadromous fishes can be exposed to multiple threats at different
stages of development. For the primarily catadromous eels of the family Anguillidae, there is …

Aquatic animal diseases are one of the major limiting factors in aquaculture development,
with disease emergence forecast to increase with global change. However, in order to treat …

The eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) is among the most invasive fish worldwide
and yet, while very abundant in most Mediterranean countries, it is unable to tolerate the …

Plants have been reported to produce various effects such as antistress, growth promotion,
appetite stimulation, immunostimulation, aphrodisiac and to have antipathogen properties in …

Anguillid eels are found globally in fresh, transitional and saline waters and have played an
important role in human life for centuries. The population status of several species is now of …

… This work was supported by the labex Corail project (MECANO, to Pierre Sasal). This research
is part of an EPHE thesis supported by a labex ‘Corail‘ doctoral grant awarded to Miriam …

Although fish health may influence key population-level processes, particularly those dealing
with natural mortality, reproduction, and growth, which, in turn, affect stock productivity, little …