DAO Editors

FOUNDING EDITOR

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Otto Kinne

kinne(at)int-res.com

 

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Alex D. Hyatt

Electron Microscopy Group, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO, Livestock Industries, Private Bag 24, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia

alex.hyatt@csiro.au

 

Sven Klimpel

Goethe-University, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Medical Biodiversity and Parasitology, Senckenberganlage 25, 60235 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

sven.klimpel(at)senckenberg.de

 

MANAGING EDITOR

John Austin

john(at)int-res.com

 

Production Manager: Timothy St.Clair. Assistants to the Editors: Marita Bruns, Matthias Dirbach, Catherine Fesefeldt, Angela Fromm, Bernhard Fromm, Linda Froome-Döring, Ivor George, Sandra Hammer, Lutz Jahrmarkt, Hans Heinrich Janssen, Konstantin Kambach, Lars Litwin, Justin Mellersh, William Neel, Melanie Overbeck, Christine Paetzold, Claire Pritchard, Simone Ritter, Heiko Scheibner, Florian Schlenker, Matthias Seaman, Ian Stewart, Natalie Striepe, Nicole Taros, Simone Thiemann

 

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All manuscripts (except Comments and Reply Comments) must pass through a rigorous review process involving at least 3 referees. For details consult Mar Ecol Prog Ser 279:1

 

EDITORS

 

Editors are fully responsible for the review process of manuscripts allotted to them; they decide on acceptance or rejection of manuscripts handled by them.

 

Roland C. Anderson

The Seattle Aquarium

1483 Alaskan Way

Seattle, Washington 98101

USA

Tel: +1 206 386-4359

Email: geoduck46(at)gmail.com

Animal Welfare of Aquatic Organisms

 

Thomas Braunbeck

Aquatic Ecology & Toxicology

Department of Zoology

University of Heidelberg

Im Neuenheimer Feld 230

69120 Heidelberg

Germany

Tel: +49 6221 562668

Email: braunbeck(at)urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Toxicant-Induced Pathology

 

David W. Bruno

Marine Scotland

PO Box 101, 375 Victoria Road

Aberdeen AB11 9DB

UK

Tel: +44 1224 295615

Email: david.bruno(at)scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Bacteria and Fungi

 

Eugene M. Burreson

Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

College of William and Mary

PO. Box 1346 (for mail), Rte. 1208, Greate Road (For UPS, FedEx)

Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062

USA

Tel: +1 804 684 7015

Email: gene(at)vims.edu

Diseases of Molluscs, Lower Invertebrates, and Microorganisms

 

Cynthia Carey

University of Colorado

Department of Integrative Physiology

Boulder, Colorado 80309-0354

USA

Tel: +1 303 492-6014

Email: cynthia.carey(at)colorado.edu

Disease in Aquatic Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians

(Amphibian diseases and ecophysiology)

 

V. Gregory Chinchar

University of Mississippi, Medical Center

Department of Microbiology

2500 North State Street

Jackson, Mississippi 39216

USA

Tel: +1 601-984-1743

Email: vchinchar(at)umc.edu

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Viruses

(Identification and characterization of viral replicative and virulence genes; antiviral immunity in lower vertebrates)

 

Catherine Collins

Fisheries Research Services (FRS)

Marine Laboratory

PO Box 101, Victoria Road

Torry, Aberdeen AB11 9DB

UK

Tel: +44 1224 295683

Email: Catherine.Collins(at)scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Molecular Aspects of Disease Phenomena

 

Jeff A. Cowley

CSIRO Livestock Industries

Queensland Bioscience Precinct

306 Carmody Road,

St. Lucia, Queensland 4067

Australia

Tel: +61 7 32142527

Email: jeff.cowley(at)csiro.au

Disease in Crustaceans

(Molecular virology, molecular diagnostics, epidemiology and antiviral therapy)

 

Mark Crane

Project Leader, AAHL Fish Diseases Laboratory

Australian Animal Health Laboratory

CSIRO Livestock Industries

Private Bag 24

Geelong, Victoria 3220

Australia

Tel: +61 3 52 275118

Email: mark.crane(at)csiro.au

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Viruses

 

Andrew A. Cunningham

Professor of Wildlife Epidemiology

Institute of Zoology

Regent's Park

London NW1 4RY

UK

Tel: +44 20 7449 6674

Email: A.Cunningham(at)ioz.ac.uk

Disease in Aquatic Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians

Infectious diseases of amphibians; comparative pathology; disease threats to wildlife conservation)

 

Donald L. Evans

Department of Infectious Diseases

College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia 30602

USA

Tel: +1 706 542 3473

Email: dlevans(at)uga.edu

Immunology Research in Aquatic Organisms

 

Stephen W. Feist

Cefas Weymouth Laboratory

Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB

UK

Tel: +44 1305 206600

Email: stephen.feist(at)cefas.co.uk

Diseases of Molluscs, Lower Invertebrates, and Microorganisms

 

Rebecca J. Gast

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Biology Department, MS#32

Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

USA

Email: rgast(at)whoi.edu

Diseases of Molluscs, Lower Invertebrates, and Microorganisms

(Zoonotic diseases, microbial eukaryote (protistan) ecology)

 

Mike Hine

73 rue de la Fée au Bois

17450 Fouras

France

Tel: +33 5 46 84 16 39

Email: vinet.hine(at)orange.fr

Diseases of Molluscs, Lower Invertebrates, and Microorganisms

 

Alex D. Hyatt

(address as above)

Diseases of Aquatic Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians

 

Stewart C. Johnson

Head, Aquatic Animal Health, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Pacific Biological Station

3190 Hammond Bay Rd

Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6N7

Canada

Tel: +1 250 756-7077

Email: Stewart.Johnson(at)dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Genomic, Proteomic and Metabolomic Aspects

 

Sven Klimpel

(address as above)

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Protozoans, Protophytans and Metazoans

(Fish parasites: pathology, taxonomy, life cycles and host-parasite interactions)

 

Thomas Lang

Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI)

Deichstr. 12

27472 Cuxhaven

Germany

Tel: +49 4721 38034

Email: thomas.lang(at)vti.bund.de

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Proliferative Disorders

 

David J. Marcogliese

Fluvial Ecosystem Research - St. Lawrence Centre Research Group

Aquatic Ecosystem Protection Research Division, Water Science and Technology Directorate

Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada

105 McGill St., 7th Floor

Montreal, Quebec H2Y 2E7

Canada

Tel: +1 514 283 6499

Email: david.marcogliese(at)ec.gc.ca

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Protozoans, Protophytans and Metazoans

(Ecology, pollution, life cycles and host-parasite interactions)

 

Michael Moore

Biology Department, Mailstop 50

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

USA

Tel: +1 508 289 3228

Email: mmoore(at)whoi.edu

Diseases in Aquatic Mammals

 

Robert Poulin

Department of Zoology

University of Otago, New Zealand

340 Great King Street, P.O. Box 56

Dunedin

New Zealand

Tel: +643 479 7983

Email: robert.poulin(at)stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Global Change, Ecology of Host-Parasite Interactions

 

Garriet Smith

University of South Carolina Aiken, Dept of Biology and Geology

461 Univ. Parkway

Aiken, South Carolina 29801

USA

Tel: +1-803-641-3427

Email: SmithRes(at)usca.edu

Coral Diseases

 

Dieter Steinhagen

School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

Centre for Infection Medicine, Fish Disease Research Unit

Bünteweg 17

30559 Hannover

Germany

Tel: +49 511 953 8560

Email: dieter.steinhagen(at)tiho-hannover.de

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Protozoan Fish Parasites

(Pathology, Biology and Host Responses)

 

Grant D. Stentiford

Pathology and Parasitology Team

CEFAS Weymouth Laboratory

Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB

UK

Tel: +44 1305 206 722

Email: grant.stentiford(at)cefas.co.uk

Diseases in Crustaceans

 

Bernd Sures

University Duisburg-Essen

Applied Zoology / Hydrobiology

45117 Essen

Germany

Tel: +49 201 183 2617

Email: Bernd.Sures(at)uni-due.de

Diseases in Fishes - Due to Environmental Factors

 

REVIEW EDITORS

 

Review Editors critically assess the scientific value of manuscripts, and may advise authors in matters of manuscript presentation.

 

Bassem Allam

Stony Brook, New York, USA

Mollusc pathology and host-pathogen interactions, mollusc immunology

 

Pilar Alvarez-Pellitero

Castellón, Spain

Fish parasitology, fish immunology

 

Ellen Ariel

Townsville, Australia

Reptile virology; ranaviruses in fish

 

Brian Austin

University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

Bacterial diseases of fish; vaccination; probiotics, taxonomic identification techniques, pathogenicity mechanisms

 

Carlos Azevedo

Porto, Portugal

Protoparasitology and diseases of molluscs and fishes

 

Sven M. Bergmann

Greifswald, Germany

Virology, diagnostics and notifiable diseases in fish, molluscs and crustaceans; humoral immunity in fish; parasitology; hygiene in aquaculture

 

Franck C. J. Berthe

Parma, Italy

diseases of molluscs, lower invertebrates, and microorganisms

 

Susan Bower

Kyukuot, Canada

Infectious diseases of commercially important molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms

 

David Boyle

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Virology, molecular diagnostic techniques, vaccine vectors and immune responses, large DNA genome viruses

 

Laura Brown

Nanaimo, Canada

Fishes: immune responses to bacterial and viral pathogens; chemotherapeutants; vaccines; functional genomics

 

David K. Cone

Halifax, Canada

Taxonomy of myxozoans and monogeneans and ecology of fish parasites

 

Arik Diamant

Eilat, Israel

Fishes: parasites, especially protozoans

 

Diane G. Elliott

Seattle, Washington, USA

Fishes: bacterial diseases, pathology and histopathology, diagnostic methods, host-pathogen interactions

 

Mansour El-Matbouli

Vienna, Austria

Fish and crustacean: molecular aspects of host-parasite interaction; morphogenesis and ontogenesis of parasites; molecular immunology and pathobiology of parasitic diseases

 

Ralph Elston

Carlsborg, Washington, USA

Fishes, molluscs: infections; neoplasms; aquaculture health management

 

Timothy W. Flegel

Bangkok, Thailand

Diseases of Crustaceans, shrimp

 

William F. Font

Hammond, Luisiana, USA

Ecological parasitology of fishes, crustaceans and molluscs

 

Susan Ford

Port Norris, New Jersey, USA

Molluscs: protozoan diseases; epizootiology; effects of salinity and temperature, host/parasite interactions

 

Marta Gomez-Chiarri

Kingston, Richmond, USA

Molecular biology as it relates to shellfish and finfish disease

 

Frances Gulland

Sausalito, California, USA

Diseases of marine mammals

 

Lori Gustafson

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Aquatic animal disease surveillance and epidemiology

 

Larry Hanson

Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA

Viral and bacterial diseases of fish

 

David Hoole

Keele, UK

Host-parasite interactions in fish, especially to immunological responses; effects of water quality on fish immunity

 

James Jancovich

San Marcos, California, USA

viral infections of aquatic vertebrates, viral genomics and evolution, and host-pathogen interactions

 

Liliana Jaso-Friedmann

Athens, Georgia, USA

Immunology: cellular and molecular

 

Robert Johnson

Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

Diseases of amphibians and aquatic reptiles, Reptile haematology, Anaesthesia of amphibians and reptiles, Ethics of wildlife research

 

Kaattari S

Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA

Fishes: immunology (molecular, cellular, biochemical); antibodies; vaccines; therapeutics; defense mechanisms

 

Michael L. Kent

Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Protozoan and myxozoan diseases of fish; diseases of zebrafish and pen-reared salmonid fishes

 

Gael Kurath

Seattle, Washington, USA

Fish virology: RNA virus epidemiology, evolution, host specificity, and DNA vaccines

 

Michael Levy

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Phylogeny (molecular and classical ), life cycles, host /parasite relations, immunity, diagnosis of parasitic and microbial infections

 

Donald V. Lightner

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Crustaceans: esp. infectious diseases of marine penaeid shrimps

 

Yuanan Lu

Honululu, Hawaii, USA

marine animal cell cultures, viral diseases of aquatic animals, and vector mediated gene transfer

 

Kenneth A. McColl

Geelong, Australia

Viral diseases of aquatic animals: pathogenesis studies; comparative pathology and histopathology; molecular diagnostics; immune responses

 

Molnár K

Budapest, Hungary

Fishes: infections due to parasites (Coccidia, Myxosporea; Monogenea); pathology; drug use

 

Nicholas J. G. Moody

Geelong, Australia

Finfish virology: detection, identification and characterisation of viruses, diagnostic test development, pathogenesis, primary cell culture

 

Alexander G. Murray

Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Epidemiology of aquatic animal diseases; epidemiological and environmental modelling

 

Mark S. Myers

Seattle, Washington, USA

Fish histopathology, oncology, carcinogenesis; epizootiology

 

John H. E. Nash

Ottawa, Canada

Bacterial genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics

 

Leigh Owens

Townsville, Australia

Infectious diseases and host responses of aquatic animals, especially crustaceans, virulence determinants in Vibrios

 

Allan Pessier

San Diego, California, USA

Amphibian disease and pathology, general pathology (invertebrates, fish, reptiles and amphibians)

 

Trygve T. Poppe

Oslo, Norway

Pathology and histopathology; side-effects of immunization; inflammatory responses

 

Stephen Raverty

Abbotsford, Canada

Post mortem examination, disease outbreak investigations, health assessment and disease processes in marine mammals

 

Kimberly S. Reece

Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA

Molecular phylogenetics of protistan disease agents in molluscs; molecular diagnostics; gene expression

 

Louise Rollins-Smith

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Amphibian immune defenses: chytridiomycosis, Ranaviruses, peptides; mucosal immunity in amphibian skin; developmental and comparative immunology

 

Dave S. Rotstein

Suitland, Maryland, USA

Pathology, gross and histologic; population health

 

Helmut Segner

Bern, Switzerland

Fishes; nutritional disorders, toxicological pathology, stress-related injuries; diseases due to microorganisms

 

Hamish J. Small

Gloucester Point, Virgiania, USA

Diseases of crustaceans, molecular and immunological diagnostic methods

 

Richard Speare

Townsville, Australia

Diseases of amphibians and amphibian disease control strategies

 

Michael K. Stoskopf

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics of drugs in aquatic species. Clinical background with aquatic mammals, marine fishes, reptiles and seabirds

 

Richard Thiery

Sophia Antipolis, France

Fish virology including molecular aspects, diagnostics, control (vaccine), nodavirosis in marine fish and rhabdoviral diseases

 

Alicia E. Toranzo

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Fishes: biochemical serological and molecular characterization of bacterial and viral pathogens

 

Antonio Villalba

Vilanova de Arousa, Spain

Parasites and diseases of bivalve molluscs; pathology; environmental influences; host defense mechanisms

 

Thomas Wahli

Bern, Switzerland

Host-pathogen relationships, esp. parasites and viruses

 

Burkard Watermann

Hamburg, Germany

Invertebrates (molluscs, crustaceans) and fishes: pollution-related diseases; epizootiology and histopathology

 

Keith Way

Dorset, United Kingdom

Fish virology: fish cell culture, viral pathogenesis, development and validation of diagnostic methods and characterisation, significance of newly identified viruses

 

Richard J. Whittington

Camden, Australia

Epizootic haematopoietic Necrosis virus, iridoviruses and nodaviruses of finfish, mycobacterial diseases of farm animals, mechanisms and control of infectious diseases

 

Geert F. Wiegertjes

Wageningen, The Netherlands

Parasite infections, especially protozoan infections, of fish and the fish immune response to infection

 

James R. Winton

Seattle, Washington, USA

Fishes: viral diseases; diagnosis, control (including molecular techniques)

 

Doug Woodhams

Zürich, Switzerland

Disease ecology of amphibians