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FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Salmon lice as models for understanding life history evolution of parasites

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Salmon lice represent an important problem both in relation to fish farming and to the conservation of wild salmonids. It is now estimated that at least 95 % of all salmon lice eggs in the sea come from farmed fish. The majority of salmon lice have ther efore changed their resource base from wild to farmed salmon. In this application we want to explore if this also has led to evolutionary changes in life history traits and in virulence of the parasite. As there are now significantly more host individual s to infect than there was before farming, salmon lice which invest in rapid developmental rates and higher reproductive output could be selected for. In this project we will examine this both by field studies and by artificial selection experiments.

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FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

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