The aquatic oligochaete Tubifex tubifex is an obligate host of Myxobolus cerebralis, the causative agent of salmonid whirling disease. Tubifex tubifex can become infected by ingesting myxospores ofM. cerebralis that have been released into sediments upon death and decomposition of infected salmonids. Infected worms release triactinomyxons into the water column that then infect salmonids. How the d

Authors

Richard Stevens, B.L. Kerans, J. C. Lemmon, Charlotte Rasmussen

Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Fisheries Research Center

Publications

USGS divers in the Elwha River

WFRC zebrafish laboratory

Processing a Lost River sucker

Monitoring tailrace egress in the stilling basin, the ice-trash sluiceway, and the powerhouse of The Dalles Dam, 2000

Biological evaluation of the behavioral guidance structure at Lower Granite dam on the Snake River, Washington in 1998

Flow, temperature, and habitat conditions in the Wind River watershed

Effects of water-level fluctuations on resident fish larvae and age-0 juveniles in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River during July-September 1998-2000

Monitoring of Lost River and shortnose suckers at the Sprague River Dam fish ladder, Oregon

Monitoring of Lost River and shortnose suckers at shoreline spawning areas in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

Monitoring of Lost River and shortnose suckers in Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

Colletotrichum as a model system for defining the genetic basis of fungal symbiotic lifestyles

Absence of risk associated with movement of processed rainbow trout from an area where infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus is endemic

Juvenile and resident fish populations in the Wind River watershed

Monitoring of Lost River and shortnose suckers in the Lower Williamson River, Oregon

The effects of Myxobolus cerebralis, myxospore dose on triactinomyxon production and biology of Tubifex tubifex from two geographic regions

U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Department of the Interior