• Coincident mass occurrence of gelatinous zooplankton in Northern Norway 

      Knutsen, Tor; Hosia, Aino; Falkenhaug, Tone; Skern-Mauritzen, Rasmus; Wiebe, Peter H.; Larsen, Roger B.; Aglen, Asgeir (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-23)
      In autumn 2015, several sources reported observations of large amounts of gelatinous material in a large north Norwegian fjord system, either caught when trawling for other organisms or fouling fishing gear. The responsible organism was identified as a physonect siphonophore, Nanomia cara, while a ctenophore, Beroe cucumis, and a hydromedusa, Modeeria rotunda, were also registered in high abundances ...
    • Finding the needle in the haystack: Comparison of methods for salmon louse enumeration in plankton samples 

      Bui, Samantha; Dalvin, Sussie; Vågseth, Tone; Oppedal, Frode; Fossøy, Frode; Brandsegg, Hege; Jacobsen, Ása; Nordi, Gunnvør á; Fordyce, Mark; Michelsen, Helena Kling; Finstad, Bengt; Skern-Mauritzen, Rasmus (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-07)
      The economic and social implications of salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) epidemics in salmon aquaculture drive focus of the dispersal dynamics of the planktonic larval stages. The vast spatial scale and high connectivity of the marine environment creates difficult conditions to monitor the infective planktonic louse stage, whereby the number of samples required for a representative description ...
    • The salmon louse genome may be much larger than sequencing suggests. 

      Wyngaard, Grace; Skern-Mauritzen, Rasmus; Malde, Ketil; Prendergast, Rachel; Peruzzi, Stefano (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-22)
      The genome size of organisms impacts their evolution and biology and is often assumed to be characteristic of a species. Here we present the frst published estimates of genome size of the ecologically and economically important ectoparasite, Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Copepoda, Caligidae). Four independent L. salmonis genome assemblies of the North Atlantic subspecies Lepeophtheirus salmonis ...