| | Jamaica Gleaner News - WORLD OF WORMS WORLD OF PARASITES! - Thursday | November 17, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The main obstacle to the success of seawater culture of tilapia - called fresh water snapper - is a parasite called neobenedenia which attaches to the skin of the fish to feed on skin cells and mucus. |
 | | Nicola O'Connor, a graduate student in the Department of Life Sciences, studied infected tilapia to determine whether they develop an immune response that would protect them from neobenedenia. |
 | | She found that tilapia could, indeed, develop resistance to the parasite, but the problem was that this lasted only a few weeks - not long enough for survival of the fish to harvest time. |
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