Prevalence of the Invasive Rhizocephalan Parasite Loxothylacus panopaei in Eurypanopeus depressus in South Carolina and Genetic Relationships of the Parasite in North and South Carolina

The rhizocephalan barnacle Loxothylacus panopaei is a parasitic castrator of xanthid crabs that has invaded the U.S. Atlantic coast. It was transported to the Chesapeake Bay in the mid-1960s with mud crabs associated with Gulf coast oysters and has since spread north to Long Island Sound, New York,...

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