Outputs (2)

Parasite DNA detection in water samples enhances crayfish plague monitoring in asymptomatic invasive populations (2021)
Journal Article
Sieber, N., Hartikainen, H., Krieg, R., Zenker, A., & Vorburger, C. (2022). Parasite DNA detection in water samples enhances crayfish plague monitoring in asymptomatic invasive populations. Biological Invasions, 24(1), 281-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02644-y

Invasive species can facilitate the spread of pathogens by first providing asymptomatic host reservoirs, and then driving disease outbreaks in native populations through pathogen spillover. An example of this are invasive crayfish species in Europe (... Read More about Parasite DNA detection in water samples enhances crayfish plague monitoring in asymptomatic invasive populations.

Exploration of the 2016 Yellowstone River fish kill and proliferative kidney disease in wild fish populations (2021)
Journal Article
Hutchins, P. R., Sepulveda, A. J., Hartikainen, H., Staigmiller, K. D., Opitz, S. T., Yamamoto, R. M., …Okamura, B. (2021). Exploration of the 2016 Yellowstone River fish kill and proliferative kidney disease in wild fish populations. Ecosphere, 12(3), Article e03436. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3436

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) is an emerging disease that recently resulted in a large mortality event of salmonids in the Yellowstone River (Montana, USA). Total PKD fish mortalities in the Yellowstone River were estimated in the tens of thousa... Read More about Exploration of the 2016 Yellowstone River fish kill and proliferative kidney disease in wild fish populations.