Freshwater Fish Eyes as Great Home for Parasites

Fresh Water Fish

A great founding of Canadian researcher that parasites prefer creates their home on eyes lens of freshwater fish. Parasites like to make their home in the eyes of freshwater fishes, this founding is publishes by journal of Molecular Ecology. This study provide new knowledge for evolutionary world of the larval that flukes that parasitize to Canadian fish.

Canada knows as the best studied of freshwater fish parasites in the world. The larval flukes infected to freshwater fish mostly appear as microscopic, seen as white blobs that nearly impossible to identify, but after research more detail about this strange they know that that is an infected causes by larva.

But Locke and his college used DNA bar-coding to see the detail of this stranger. After examine more carefully this parasites also found in many other animals like fish and frogs. This parasite also found in many tissue including muscle, gills, brains and internal organs especially on one or a few closely related fishes. Other founding on the eyes lens of fishes also found if five species of non specialized flukes that thrives in many different fish species and even frogs.

The eyes lens to be the host of Achilles heel, an immune response that makes blind the fish. This finding practically benefit for wildlife managers and fish farmers, this larval flukes are among the most common fish parasites in the world and causes of problems in aquaculture and sport fisheries.