Perception of Chromatic Cues During Host Location by the Pupal ParasitoidPimpla turionellae(L.) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Parasitic copepods of the family Caligidae, the so-called sea lice, may be deleterious to marine or brackish finfish aquaculture. To date, biological and ecological studies of sea lice have been mostly restricted to species from cold or temperate regions. In Mexico there are some records of sea lice species on marine fishes; however, the research regarding their biology and ecology has been scarce. It is possible that a high biodiversity of sea lice is distributed in coastal waters of Mexico; therefore, their significance as pathogenic parasites should increase. The purpose of this review is to outline the current knowledge of the life cycle, host location, ecology, effect on fish health, and control strategies of sea lice in order to establish supportive basis for natural resource management and control of parasites and diseases of marine fish cultured in Mexico.

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Plant-associated odor perception and processing in two parasitoid species with different degrees of host specificity: Implications for host location strategies

Journal of Insect Physiology ◽

10.1016/j.jinsphys.2017.08.002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 101 ◽

pp. 169-177

Author(s):

Prithwiraj Das ◽

Tolulope Morawo ◽

Henry Fadamiro

Keyword(s):

Host Specificity ◽

Host Location ◽

Parasitoid Species ◽

Odor Perception ◽

Location Strategies

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Colour cues proved to be more informative for dogs than brightness

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2013.1356 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 280 (1766) ◽

pp. 20131356 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Anna A. Kasparson ◽

Jason Badridze ◽

Vadim V. Maximov

Keyword(s):

Colour Vision ◽

Visual Stimuli ◽

Cone Photoreceptors ◽

Lighting Conditions ◽

Chromatic Cues

The results of early studies on colour vision in dogs led to the conclusion that chromatic cues are unimportant for dogs during their normal activities. Nevertheless, the canine retina possesses two cone types which provide at least the potential for colour vision. Recently, experiments controlling for the brightness information in visual stimuli demonstrated that dogs have the ability to perform chromatic discrimination. Here, we show that for eight previously untrained dogs colour proved to be more informative than brightness when choosing between visual stimuli differing both in brightness and chromaticity. Although brightness could have been used by the dogs in our experiments (unlike previous studies), it was not. Our results demonstrate that under natural photopic lighting conditions colour information may be predominant even for animals that possess only two spectral types of cone photoreceptors.

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Aspects of Host Location in the Juvenile Isopod Lironeca vulgaris (Stimpson, 1857)

Journal of Parasitology ◽

10.2307/3281538 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 71 (4) ◽

pp. 464 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mike Moser ◽

Judy Sakanari

Keyword(s):

Host Location

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