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Marine parasites as biological tags of cephalopod hosts
1Laboratorio de Parasitología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad de Vigo, Ap. 874, Vigo, Spain. marias@setei.uvigo.es
Parasitology Today (Personal Ed.)
|August 1, 1996
Abstract:
The use of marine parasites as non-intrusive natural tags of their hosts was first broadly applied in fisheries science in the 1940s. Both micro- and macroparasites have been used to assess the status of current stocks of several commercially exploited species of marine animals. Here, Santiago Pascual and Eric Hochberg offer a brief comment on marine parasite tags as a stock assessment methodology, with special reference to cephalopod hosts.

