Talk:Myxobolus cerebralis

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When a triactinomyxon happens to brush against a fish, it shoots its sporoplasm into the fish and the sporoplasm divides and invades the fish's body. What happens to the rest of the triactinomyxon? Does it just float around aimlessly in the water until it dies? Or is there an automatic programmed cell death that happens immediately once its sole purpose in life has been achieved? —Soap— 03:25, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I guess if we assume that the triactinomyxon stage is their version of the medusa stage, it dies a pre-programmed death after injecting its germ cells into the fish. Some articles seem to make this connection, and even go on to call the tubifex worm the definitive host of the parasite, since it is in the worm that the form analogous to the medusa takes shape. However I've yet to find anyone writing that the medusa and the triactinomyxon are actually related ... it may be just a coincidence that myxozoans and medusozoans both have 2-stage life cycles. —Soap— 00:39, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Me again : /

Apparently whirling disease can also be caused by a completely unrelated waterborne parasite, Galactosomum. I found this on vetbook.org, but that site does not seem to be updated very often. Nevertheless, there does exist a paper source, namely

Kimura M. and M. Endo (1979) Whirling disease caused by metacercaria of a fluke. Fish Pathol 13:211-213 ( https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsfp1966/13/4/13_4_211/_article )

Nevertheless, the cause and symptoms of this type of whirling disease seem to be very different to the triactinomyxon-associated type, so perhaps the term has fallen out of use? —Soap— 20:36, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I post is because there's no obvious place to put this info, unless we turn whirling disease into a dab page. —Soap— 20:39, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This 2005 featured article, last reviewed in 2006, does not meet standards for a featured article, and needs work to avoid a Featured article review. It does not appear to have been maintained current.

• There are several unanswered dated queries on talk, indicating that the article is not well watched.
• Google scholar returns 600 results since 2016 alone.
• WP:CITATION OVERKILL: sample, The parasite is not transmissible to humans.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
• The lead is not an adequate summary of the article.
• There is uncited text.
• There are no "as of" dates, but data cited to sources as old as 1997.
• MOS:CURRENT and WP:MOSNUM in one phrase: The Government of Alberta is currently sampling and testing fish in 6 different watersheds ...
• WP:NOTADVICE, telling anglers what to do. ( Federal, state, provincial, and local regulations on the use of bait should be followed.)

An indepth look, with some copyediting, is needed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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