Parasites research
The study of animals that live on or in other life forms, often to the detriment of the host.
Protozoans
Project leader: Dr Robert D. Adlard
- morphological and molecular diagnosis of emerging protozoan pathogens of finfish
- protozoan parasitology of commercially cultured bivalves
- protozoan pathogens in aquaculture; aquatic animal health
- blood-borne parasitic protozoa of Australia's avifauna.
Worms (parasitic helminths)
Project leader: Dr Robert D. Adlard
- taxonomy of digenean and monogenean parasitic worms of coral reef fish
- molecular phylogeny of parasites of fishes
- determinants of distribution of digenean parasites of coral-reef fishes
- Nematomorph (Gordian worms) morphology and diversity.
