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Methodological issues affecting the study of fish parasites. II. Sampling method affects ectoparasite studies

SYSNO ASEP	0462476
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Methodological issues affecting the study of fish parasites. II. Sampling method affects ectoparasite studies
Author(s)	Kvach, Yuriy (UBO-W)_{ORCID, RID, SAI} Ondračková, Markéta (UBO-W)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Janáč, Michal (UBO-W)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Jurajda, Pavel (UBO-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	4
Source Title	Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. - : Inter-Research - ISSN 0177-5103 Roč. 121, č. 1 (2016), s. 59-66
Number of pages	8 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	DE - Germany
Keywords	Parasite community ; Fish sampling method ; Methodology ; Parasitological examination ; Rutilus rutilus
Subject RIV	EG - Zoology
R&D Projects	GBP505/12/G112 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Institutional support	UBO-W - RVO:68081766
UT WOS	000384243300006
EID SCOPUS	84984922334
DOI	10.3354/dao03035
Annotation	In this study, we assessed the impact of sampling method on the results of fish ectoparasite studies. Common roach Rutilus rutilus were sampled from the same gravel pit in the River Dyje flood plain (Czech Republic) using 3 different sampling methods, i.e. electrofishing, beach seining and gill-netting, and were examined for ectoparasites. Not only did fish caught by electrofishing have more of the most abundant parasites (Trichodina spp., Gyrodactylus spp.) than those caught by beach seining or gill-netting, they also had relatively rich parasite infracommunities, resulting in a significantly different assemblage composition, presumably as parasites were lost through handling and ‘manipulation’ in the net. Based on this, we recommend electrofishing as the most suitable method to sample fish for parasite community studies, as data from fish caught with gill-nets and beach seines will provide a biased picture of the ectoparasite community, underestimating ectoparasite abundance and infracommunity species richness.
Workplace	Institute of Vertebrate Biology
Contact	Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524
Year of Publishing	2017

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