Research

Center for Fish Biology and Fishery Biotechnology

Research Group of Parasitology and Host-parasite Coevolution

 

 

PI: Prof. WANG Guitang

Members: Dr. Shan G. Wu (WU Shan-gong), Dr. Wen X. Li (LI Wen-xiang) 

Contact Us:  

Tel.: +86-27-68780611 

Email: gtwang@ihb.ac.cn 

General Introduction:  

The Research Group of Parasitology and Host-parasite Coevolution mainly engages in the basic and applied research of fish diseases, including parasitology, microbiology and fish disease control.  

Current research interests:  

* Taxonomy, phylogeny, population biology, molecular ecology of parasites 

Host-parasite coevolution 

Epidemiology of fish parasitic diseases 

Molecular ecology of microbial community in water, sediment of fishponds, as well as fish intestine 

* Fish microbial pathogenesis 

Relationship between the microbial community and the occurrence of fish diseases 

Probiotics application in aquaculture 

Fish disease control with chemical drugs and ecological methods 

Recent Publications:

[1]  Gao, D., Wang, G.T., Chen, X.T. & Nie, P. 2009. Metallothionein-2 gene from the mandarinfish Siniperca chuatsi (basilewsky, 1855): cDNA cloning, tissue expression, and immunohistochemical localization.Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C: Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology. 149: 1825 

[2]  Chen, X.T. & Wang, G.T. 2008. Research development of resistance genes in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Huazhong Agricultural University. 27 (6): 811-819. (In Chinese with English abstract) 

[3]  Moravec F., Nie P. & Wang, G. T. 2008. Redescription and systematic status of Neocapilaria phoxini Yu et Wang, 1994 (Nematoda: Capillariidae). Folia Parasitologica, 55: 316-318. 

[4]  Li, W.X., Wang, G.T. & Nie, P. 2008. Genetic variation of fish parasite populations in historically connected habitats: undetected habitat fragmentation effect on populations of the nematode Procamallanus fulvidraconis in the catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco. The Journal of Parasitology, 94(3): 643-647. 

[5]  Li, W.X., Wang, G.T., Wu, S.G., Yao, W.J. & Nie, P. 2008. Population dynamics and frequency distribution of the nematode Procamallanus fulvidraconis and trematode Genarchopsis goppo in yellowhead catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco in Liangzi lake of Hubei Province, China. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 32 (1): 195200. (In Chinese with English abstract) 

[6]  Gao, D., Wang, G.T., Xi, B.W., Yao, W.J. & Nie, P., 2008. A new species of Allocreadium (Trematoda: Allocreadiidae) from freshwater fishes in the Danjiangkou Reservoir in China. The Journal of Parasitology, 94(1): 176-180.  

[7]  Wu, S.G., Wang, G.T. Xi, B.W., Gao, D. & Nie, P. 2008. Molecular characteristics of Camallanus spp. (Spirurida: Camallanidae) in fishes from China based on its rDNA sequences. The Journal of Parasitology, 94 (3): 731-736.  

[8]  Gao, D., Wang, G.T., Xi, B.W., Yao, W.J. & Nie, P. 2008. Seasonal dynamics of Micracanthornhynchina motomurai (Acanthocephala: Rhadinorhynchidae) in three cyprinids from the Danjiangkou reservoir. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 32(1): 1-5. (In Chinese with English abstract) 

[9]  Song, Y., Wang, G.T., Yao, W.J., Gao, Q. & Nie, P. 2008. Phylogeny of freshwater parasitic copepods in the Ergasilidae (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida) based on 18S and 28S rDNA sequences. Parasitology Research, 102: 299-306. 

[10] Wu, S. G., Wang, G. T., Gao, D., Xi, B. W., Yao, W. J. & Liu, M. L., 2007. Occurrence of Camallanus cotti in greatly diverse fish species from Danjiangkou Reservior in central China. Parasitology Research, 101: 467-471.  

[11] Wu, S. G., Wang, G. T., Xi, B. W., Gao, D. & Nie, P., 2007. Population dynamics and maturation cycle of Camallanus cotti (Nematoda: Camallanidae) in the Chinese hooksnout carp Opsariichthys bidens (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae) from a reservoir in China. Veterinary Parasitology, 147: 125-131.  

[12] Urabe, M., Ogawa, K., Nakatsugawa, T., Nakai, K., Tanaka, M. & Wang, G., 2007.Morphological description of two bucephalid trematodes collected from freshwater fishes in the Uji River, Kyoto, Japan. Parasitology international, 56: 269-272. 

[13] Gao, Q., Chen, M.X., Yao, W.J., Gao, Y., Song, Y., Wang, G.T., Wang, M.X. & Nie,P. 2007. Phylogeny of diplozoids in five genera of the subfamily Diplozoinae Palombi, 1949 as inferred from ITS-2 rDNA sequences. Parasitology,  134: 695–703. 

[14] Wu, S. G., Moravec, F., Wang, G. T. & Nie, P., 2006. First description of the male and redescription of the female of Philometra clavaeceps Dogiel and Akhmerov, 1959 (Nematoda: Philometridae), a parasite of east Asian cyprinid fish. The Journal of Parasitology, 92(2): 380-384.  

[15] Li, W.X., Wang, G.T., Yao, W.J. & Nie, P. 2006. Seasonal changes in the occurrence and maturation of the nematode Procamallanus fulvidraconis in the yellowhead catfish Pelteobagrus fulvidraco in Liangzi Lake of Hubei Province, China. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 30 (3): 339-343. (In Chinese with English abstract) 

[16] Wu, S.G, Wang, G.T., Li, W.X. & Nie, P. 2005. A preliminary study on phylogeny of nine species of philometrids in China. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 29 (5): 571-575. (In Chinese with English abstract) 

[17] Zeng, B.P., Liao, X.H., Nie, P. & Wang, G.T. 2005. Monthly changes of the metacercarial cyst infrapopulation of the digenean, Centrocestus formosanus in the gill lamellae of the mosquito fish. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 29 (6): 705-707. (In Chinese with English abstract) 

[18] Li, W.X., Wang, G.T., Yao, W.J. & Nie, P., 2005. Seasonal dynamics and distribution of the digenean Phyllodistomum pawlovskii (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) in the bullhead catfish, Pseudobagrus fulvidraco, in a lake of China. The Journal of Parasitology, 91(4): 850-853.  

[19] Luo, D., Chen, X., Fang, W., Wang, G., 2004. Phiometroides buirnurensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Philometridae) from cyprinid fishes in the Buir Nur lake on the border of China and Mongolia. The Journal of Parasitology, 90(4): 813-816. 

[20] Moravec, F., Nie, P. & Wang, G., 2004. New data on the morphology and systematic status of Spinitectus petrowi and Spinitectus gigi (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) parasitic in catfishes in central China. Folia Parasitologica, 51: 346-358. 

[21] Moravec, F., Nie, P. & Wang, G., 2004. Redescription of Camallanus hypophthalmichthys Dogel and Akhmerov, 1959 (Nematoda: Camallanidae) and its first record from fishes in China. The Journal of Parasitology, 90(6): 1463-1467. 

[22] Huang, Y.Q., Wang, G.T., Chen, X.X. & Li, W.X. 2004. Microscopic structural studies on the thymus of the bullhead catfish Pseudobagrus fulvidraco. Journal of Huazhong Agricultural University, 23 (2): 236-240. (In Chinese with English abstract) 

[23] Wang, G.T. 2003. A note on the monthly changes of Dollfustrema vaneyi in the digestive tract of the mandarin fish, Siniperca chuatsi. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 27 (1): 108-109. (In Chinese) 

[24] Moravec, F., Nie, P. & Wang, G.T., 2003. Some nematodes of fishes from central China, with the redescription of Procamallanus (Spirocamallanus) fulvidraconis (Camallanidae). Folia Parasitologica, 50: 220-230. 

[25] Wang, G.T., Yao, W.J., Gong, X.N .Wang, J.G. & Nie, P. 2003. Seasonal fluctuation of Myxobolus gibelioi(Myxosporea) plasmodia in gills of the farmed allogynogenetic gibel carp in China. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 21(2):149-153. 

[26] Huang, Y.Q., Wang, G.T., Sun, J. & Chen, X.X. 2003. Purification and molecular weight determination of serum immunoglobulin from Pseudobagrus fulvidraco. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 27 (6): 654-656. (In Chinese) 

[27] Luo, H.Y., Nie P., Yao, W.J., Wang, G.T. & Gao Q., 2003. Is the genus Digramma synonymous to the genus Ligula (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea)? Evidence from ITS and 5’ end rDNA sequences. Parasitology Research. 89:419-421. 

[28] Luo, H.Y., Nie P., Zhang, Y.A., Yao, W.J. & Wang, G.T., 2003. Genetic differentiation in populations of the cestode Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Cestoda, Pseudophyllidea) as revealed by eight microsatellite markers. Parasitology. 126:493-501. 

[29] Moravec, F., Nie, P. & Wang. G., 2003. Observations on some acanthocephalans of fishes from Hubei Province, central China. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 67: 213-224. 

[30] Moravec, F., Nie, P. & Wang. G., 2003. Some trematodes and cestodes of fishes mainly from Hubei Province, central China. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 67: 161-174. 

[31] Wang, G., Lapatra, S., Zeng, L., Zhao, Z. & Lu, Y., 2003. Establishment, growth, cryopreservation and species of origin identification of three cell lines from white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus. Methods in Cell Science, 25: 211-220.  

[32] Wang, G.T., Li, W.X., Yao, W.J. & Nie P. 2002. Mortalities induced by the copepod Sinergasilus polycolpus in farmed silver and bighead carp in a reservoir. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 48(3): 237-239.  

[33] Wang, G.T., 2002. Seasonal dynamics and distribution of Philometroides fulvidraconi (Philometridae) in the bullhead catfish, Pseudobagrus fulvidraco (Richardson). Journal of Fish Diseases, 25(10): 621-625. 

[34] Luo, H.Y., Nie, P., Zhang, Y.A., Wang, G.T. & Yao, W.J., 2002. Molecular variation of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi Yamaguti, 1934 (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) in different fish host species based on ITS rDNA sequences. Systematic Parasitology, 52: 159-166. 

[35] Li, W.X. & Wang, G.T. 2002. Regulation of parasites on host population: a brief review. Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica, 26 (5): 550-554. (In Chinese) 

[36] Moravec, F. & Wang, G.T., 2002. Dentiphilometra monopteri sp. n. (Nematoda: Philometridae) from the abdominal cavity of the swamp-eelMonopterus albus in China. The Journal of Parasitology, 88: 961-966.