Acanthocephalans are attractive candidates as model organisms for studying the ecology and co-evolutionary history of parasitic life cycles in the marine ecosystem. Adding to earlier molecular analyses of this taxon, a total of 36 acanthocephalans belonging to the classes Archiacanthocephala (3 species), Eoacanthocephala (3 species), Palaeacanthocephala (29 species), Polyacanthocephala (1 speci...

In the aquaculture industry, fish oil is widely used as a nutritional supplement to promote gonadal maturation of broodstocks, while mechanism on ovary development remain unclear. Herein, female adult spotted scat ( Scatophagus argus ) with most ovaries at phase II were fed diets containing 8% soybean (SO) or (FO) for 60 days. The final average body weight was similar between FO and SO groups. ...