Resumen
We conducted a manipulative field experiment to determine whether the leaping behaviour of wild juvenile sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka dislodges ectoparasitic sea lice Caligus clemensi and Lepeophtheirus salmonis by comparing sea-lice abundances between O. nerka juveniles prevented from leaping and juveniles allowed to leap at a natural frequency. Juvenile O. nerka allowed to leap had consistently fewer sea lice after the experiment than fish that were prevented from leaping. Combined with past research, these results imply potential costs due to parasitism and indicate that the leaping behaviour of juvenile O. nerka does, in fact, dislodge sea lice.
Idioma original | English |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 263-271 |
Número de páginas | 9 |
Publicación | Journal of Fish Biology |
Volumen | 93 |
N.º | 2 |
DOI | |
Estado | Published - ago. 2018 |
Publicado de forma externa | Sí |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:This work was supported by Simon Fraser University, the University of Toronto, V. and D. Bradshaw, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Undergraduate Student Research Award (E. A.), a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship and NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (A.B.), NSERC Discovery Grants (M.K. and J.R.), an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in Ocean Science and Canada Research Chair (M.K.) and the Tom Buell Endowment Fund supported by the Pacific Salmon Foundation and the B.C. Leading Edge Endowment Fund (J.R.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Aquatic Science
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article