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Science 16 September 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3742, pp. 1414 - 1416
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3742.1414
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Minchinia nelsoni n. sp. (Haplosporida, Haplosporidiidae): Causative Agent of the Delaware Bay Oyster Epizoötic

Harold H. Haskin 1, Leslie A. Stauber 1, and John A. Mackin 2

1 Rutgers, State University of New New Jersey, New Brunswick
2 Texas A & M, College Station

Since 1957, oyster popuulations of the Middle Atlantic coast have been ravaged by a new sporozoan parasite that has been called "MSX." This parasite is identified as a new species of Minchinia that invades oysters through epithelial tissues of gill, palp, water tubes, and, occasionally, of the digestive tract. Multinucleate plasmodia are recognized in fresh and fixed preparations.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Sporulation of Minchinia nelsoni (Haplosporida, Haplosporidiidae) in Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin).
J. A. Couch, C. A. Farley, and A. Rosenfield (1966)
Science 153, 1529-1531
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Fluorescent-Antibody Studies of Haplosporidian Parasites of Oysters in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
J. H. Barrow Jr. and B. C. Taylor (1966)
Science 153, 1531-1533
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