Contact our project leads for more information about these highlighted projects and the other work we do within this node.
Blood flukes of marine fishes
We are exploring the biodiversity and life cycles of trematodes that infect the circulatory system of fishes, sharks and turtles. Our findings will inform on controlling the diseases they cause and enable a re-evaluation of the superfamily systematics.
Project leads: Scott Cutmore, Thomas Cribb
The trematodes of Great Barrier Reef fishes
We are characterising the biodiversity of trematodes of marine fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and have, so far, described over 300 new from the region.
Project leads: Thomas Cribb, Scott Cutmore
Life cycles of trematodes in pelagic fishes
We are elucidating the unknown life cycles of trematodes that infect pelagic fishes such as tunas and marlin by examining pelagic invertebrates from Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef.
Project leads: Thomas Cribb, Scott Cutmore, Selina Ward
What happens to reefs without cleaner fish?
We examine how cleaner fish affect fish parasites, fish clients, and the rest of the community using a large-scale and long-term cleaner fish manipulation experiment.
Project lead: Lexa Grutter
Effect of temperature on the survival of a fish parasite
We test the effect of increasing temperatures associated with coral bleaching, on the survival of the favourite food of cleaner fish: gnathiid isopods.
Project lead: Lexa Grutter
