Browsing Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Subject "Marine fish"
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Human health risk from consumption of marine fish contaminated with DDT and its metabolites in Maputo Bay, Mozambique
(Springer, 2018)Many countries with incidence of malaria, including those surrounding Maputo Bay, use dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) to reduce mosquitoes. This study is the first to estimate the human health risk associated with ... -
Parasite-mediated enemy release and low biotic resistance may facilitate invasion of Atlantic coral reefs by Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans)
(Springer, 2017)Successful invasions are largely explained by some combination of enemy release, where the invader escapes its natural enemies from its native range, and low biotic resistance, where native species in the introduced range ... -
Unique co-occurrence of two genera of cymothoid ectoparasitic isopods on the same individual fish host
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Parasitism of a host fish by a single species of cymothoid is regularly reported. For the first time on a temperate-fish host and in South African waters, we observed two species of cymothoids, the flesh-infesting Anilocra ...