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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1987-009
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Diseases of abalone

In 1985 and 1986 many greenlip abalone Haliotis laevigata near Edithburg in the St Vincent Gulf died. The protozoan parasite, Perkinsus olseni, was suspected to be the cause. We showed that Perkinsus olseni was seasonally abundant in greenlip from the edge of the die-back area. It was also common in...
ORGANISATION:
University of Queensland (UQ)
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 1992-125.22
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Potential pharmaceutical products from Australian beche-de-mer

This final report details all work conducted under a 5 month pilot study funded by a small grant from the National Seafood Centre in December 1994. During this time we (i) collected and/or prepared dry powders from species of eviscerated holothurians; and (ii) evaluated extracts of the powdered...
ORGANISATION:
University of Queensland (UQ)
Environment
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 1997-336
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Symposium on parasitic diseases of aquatic animals: 10th International Congress of Protozoology

A symposium on protozoan diseases of aquatic animals was planned as a feature of the 10th International Congress of Protozoology. Speakers invited for the symposium were: Dr Mike Hine, NIWA, NZ, an expert on oyster and fish diseases, Prof. Tim Flegel, Mahidol University, Bangkok, an expert on prawn...
ORGANISATION:
University of Queensland (UQ)
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1984-027
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Identification of deep water trawl fish stocks using parasites as markers

Orange roughy are a relatively sedentary species with little movement between fish management zones. This is the conclusion of our analysis of the numbers of parasites in the gut wall of 1251 orange roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus from eight areas off southern Australia and three areas off New...
ORGANISATION:
University of Queensland (UQ)
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