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Relationship between European eel Anguilla anguilla infection with non-native parasites and swimming behaviour on encountering accelerating flow

Relationship between European eel Anguilla anguilla infection with non-native parasites and swimming behaviour on encountering accelerating flow
Relationship between European eel Anguilla anguilla infection with non-native parasites and swimming behaviour on encountering accelerating flow
The effect of Anguillicola crassus, Pseudodactylogyrus bini and Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae infection on the behaviour of downstream migrating adult European eels Anguilla anguilla as they encountered accelerating water velocity, common at engineered structures where flow is constricted (e.g. weirs and bypass systems), was evaluated in an experimental flume. The probability of reacting to, and rejecting, the velocity gradient was positively related to A. crassus larval, adult and total abundance. High abundance of Pseudodactylogyrus spp. reduced this effect, but A. crassus was the strongest parasitic factor associated with fish behaviour, and abundance was positively related to delay in downstream passage. Delayed downstream migration at hydraulic gradients associated with riverine anthropogenic structures could result in additional energetic expenditure for migrating A. anguilla already challenged by A. crassus infection.
anguillicola crassus, anguilliformes, barriers, migration, seudodactylogyrus anguillae, pseudodactylogyrus bini
0022-1112
1519-1533
Newbold, L.R.
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Hockley, F.A.
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Williams, C.F.
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Cable, J.
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Reading, A.J.
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Auchterlonie, N.
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Newbold, L.R., Hockley, F.A., Williams, C.F., Cable, J., Reading, A.J., Auchterlonie, N. and Kemp, P.S. (2015) Relationship between European eel Anguilla anguilla infection with non-native parasites and swimming behaviour on encountering accelerating flow. Journal of Fish Biology, 86 (5), 1519-1533. (doi:10.1111/jfb.12659). (PMID:25801939)

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The effect of Anguillicola crassus, Pseudodactylogyrus bini and Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae infection on the behaviour of downstream migrating adult European eels Anguilla anguilla as they encountered accelerating water velocity, common at engineered structures where flow is constricted (e.g. weirs and bypass systems), was evaluated in an experimental flume. The probability of reacting to, and rejecting, the velocity gradient was positively related to A. crassus larval, adult and total abundance. High abundance of Pseudodactylogyrus spp. reduced this effect, but A. crassus was the strongest parasitic factor associated with fish behaviour, and abundance was positively related to delay in downstream passage. Delayed downstream migration at hydraulic gradients associated with riverine anthropogenic structures could result in additional energetic expenditure for migrating A. anguilla already challenged by A. crassus infection.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 February 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 March 2015
Published date: May 2015
Keywords: anguillicola crassus, anguilliformes, barriers, migration, seudodactylogyrus anguillae, pseudodactylogyrus bini
Organisations: Water & Environmental Engineering Group

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Local EPrints ID: 376981
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/376981
ISSN: 0022-1112
PURE UUID: e2eb2e77-59f3-48fa-9314-afb9a87f5b90
ORCID for P.S. Kemp: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4470-0589

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Date deposited: 12 May 2015 09:18
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:21

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Author: L.R. Newbold
Author: F.A. Hockley
Author: C.F. Williams
Author: J. Cable
Author: A.J. Reading
Author: N. Auchterlonie
Author: P.S. Kemp ORCID iD

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