Behavioural adaptations of argulid parasites (Crustacea: Branchiura) to major challenges in their life cycle

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Fish lice are efficient host searchers, both day and night

Behavioural traits	Period
Behavioural traits	Day	Night
Sensory modalities	Vision Olfaction Mechanoreception	Olfaction Mechanoreception
Motor activity	Low	High
Internal modifiers of activity	Hunger state	Hunger state
Fish induced stimuli	Visual Chemical Mechanical	Chemical Mechanical
Host searching tactics	Hover-and-wait	Cruising
Host searching tactics
More efficient at host searching	Argulus coregoni	Argulus foliaceus

Most quantitative estimations were obtained for Argulus foliaceus [17, 18]. Experimental data on olfaction, vision and host searching for A. coregoni [19, 20] are included

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