How do fishes manage disease?
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Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment
Published on: September 11, 2018
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David B Vaughan1, Richard J Saunders2, Kate S Hutson3
1Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
|February 12, 2023
Abstract:
Disease drives the evolution of proactive and reactive mitigation behaviours in fishes as for terrestrial animals. Understanding fish self-remedy behaviours could discover algal bioactives, reveal novel strategies for disease management, identify new habitats or ecosystems critical to population health and conservation, and enhance knowledge of interspecific evolutionary relationships and communication.
