It was primarily designed to investigate the potential for genetic variation in tolerance to low salinity and a heat challenge in the salmon louse, an economically and ecologically highly significant parasite of farmed and wild salmonids in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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A pedigree-based experiment reveals variation in salinity and thermal tolerance in the salmon louse, <i>Lepeophtheirus salmonis</i>.
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