A survey of the metazoan parasite assemblage of snoek, Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791), off South Africa with an assessment of host-parasite relationships and potential biological tags

Parasites are a ubiquitous but often unseen, unacknowledged and understudied component of biological communities. However, their roles in structuring ecosystems, their influence on the evolutionary history of host species and their potential applications are slowly being uncovered. The snoek, Thyrsi...

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Main Author: Nunkoo, Muhammad Azher Irfan
Other Authors: Reed, Cecile C
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15687