Sesearchers unravel life cycle of blue-crab parasite
Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 11:05
in Biology & Nature
Professor Jeff Shields and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have succeeded in their 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that afflicts blue crabs and is of growing concern to aquaculture operations and wild fisheries around the world.