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. 2012 Aug 28;3:305. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00305

Table 3.

Prevalence of Blastodinium spp. in different copepod hosts.

Parasite Host Prevalence(%) Location Reference
Blastodinium crassum Paracalanus parvus 1.5 W Mediterranean Sea 1
B. contortum Subeucalanus subtenuis* 6–12 SE Pacific Ocean 2
P. parvus 0–3.9 W Mediterranean Sea 6
B. hyalinum Calanus finmarchicus 3.7–66 North Sea 3
Pseudocalanus elongatus 3.8–60 North Sea 3
P. elongatus 0.3–20.5 North Sea 4
Paraeuchaeta antarctica+ 6.6 Weddel Sea 5
B. mangini Oncaea cf. scottodicarloi 0–17 W Mediterranean Sea 6
Farranula rostrata 10 W Mediterranean Sea 1
B. navicula Corycaeus giesbrechti 20–30 W Mediterranean Sea 1
B. oviforme Oithona spp. 0–3 W Mediterranean Sea 6
B. spinulosum P. parvus 0.4–0.7 W Mediterranean Sea 1
Clausocalanus spp. 0.9 W Mediterranean Sea 1
Blastodium spp. P. parvus 0.4 W Mediterranean Sea 7
Calanoida 33# E Mediterranean Sea 8
Corycaeidae 51# E Mediterranean Sea 8
Oithonidae <2# E Mediterranean Sea 8
Oncaeidae <2# E Mediterranean Sea 8

*, The parasite was presumably B. contortum; +, the parasite was presumable B. hyalinum; #, based on DNA-stain screening.

1, Chatton (1920); 2, Pasternak et al. (1984); 3, Vane (1952); 4, Cattley (1948); 5, Øresland (1991); 6, Skovgaard and Saiz (2006); 7, Ianora et al. (1987); 8, Alves-de-Souza et al. (2011).