Susceptibility of Various Salmonids to Whirling Disease (Myxosoma cerebralis)
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 108 (2) , 187-190
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1979)108<187:sovstw>2.0.co;2
Abstract
In four experiments with fry and fingerling salmonids during 3 years, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were most susceptible to whirling disease (Myxosoma cerebralis) followed, in decreasing order of susceptibility, by sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), brown trout (Salmo trutta), and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) were completely refractory. Absence of infection was determined by absence of spores and signs in exposed young fish. Refractory or least susceptible species of salmonids should be reared in enzootic whirling disease areas.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Susceptibility of Salmonid Species and Hatchery Strains of Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) to Infections by Ceratomyxa shastaJournal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1977