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Alan J. Lymbery

Alan J. Lymbery

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
10326
World Ranking
16637
National Ranking
468

Overview

Alan J. Lymbery is affiliated with Murdoch University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work primarily focuses on ecology, nature and landscape conservation, immunology, and aquatic science, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach to environmental and biological challenges.

Themes within their research encompass fish ecology and management studies, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, parasite biology and host interactions, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, as well as aquaculture nutrition and growth. Additional areas covered include microRNA in disease regulation, indicating a molecular dimension to their investigations.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lymbery include David L. Morgan, S.J. Beatty, Gavin J. Partridge, Karissa O. Lear, and Jack Ingelbrecht, demonstrating a network of researchers in related fields.

Their frequent publication venues are diverse but focused within aquatic and environmental sciences, including:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • Aquaculture
  • International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife
  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Selected recent papers by Alan J. Lymbery illustrate the breadth of their work:

  • "Medicinal plants as a source of antiparasitics: an overview of experimental studies" (2023, Pathogens and Global Health)
  • "Streptococcosis a Re-Emerging Disease in Aquaculture: Significance and Phytotherapy" (2022, Animals)
  • "Fish out of water: Aquatic parasites in a drying world" (2020, International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife)
  • "Using dietary additives to improve palatability of diets containing single-cell protein from methanotrophic bacteria in yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) diets" (2022, Aquaculture Research)
  • "Burrowing behavior protects a threatened freshwater mussel in drying rivers" (2020, Hydrobiologia)

Best Publications

  • Fish-borne parasitic zoonoses: Status and issues

    Jong-Yil Chai;K. Darwin Murrell;Alan J. Lymbery

  • The role of companion animals in the emergence of parasitic zoonoses

    I.D. Robertson;P.J. Irwin;A.J. Lymbery;R.C.A. Thompson

  • Co-invaders: The effects of alien parasites on native hosts

    Alan J. Lymbery;Mikayla Morine;Hosna Gholipour Kanani;Stephen J. Beatty

  • Echinococcus and hydatid disease

    R. C. A. Thompson;A. J. Lymbery

  • The nature, extent and significance of variation within the genus Echinococcus.

    R.C.A. Thompson;A.J. Lymbery

  • Parasites, emerging disease and wildlife conservation.

    R.C.A. Thompson;A.J. Lymbery;A. Smith

  • Variation in Echinococcus: towards a taxonomic revision of the genus

    R.C.A. Thompson;A.J. Lymbery;C.C. Constantine

  • Genus bacillus, promising probiotics in aquaculture: Aquatic animal origin, bio-active components, bioremediation and efficacy in fish and shellfish

    Mehdi Soltani;Mehdi Soltani;Koushik Ghosh;Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar;Vikash Kumar;Vikash Kumar

  • The porcine intestinal spirochaetes: identification of new genetic groups

    J.I. Lee;D.J. Hampson;A.J. Lymbery;S.J. Harders

  • Isoenzyme electrophoresis of 30 isolates of Giardia from humans and felines

    B.P. Meloni;A.J. Lymbery;R.C.A. Thompson

  • Trypanosomes in a declining species of threatened Australian marsupial, the brush-tailed bettong Bettongia penicillata (Marsupialia: Potoroidae)

    A. Smith;P. Clark;S. Averis;A. J. Lymbery

  • Genetic characterization of isolates of Giardia duodenalis by enzyme electrophoresis : implications for reproductive biology, population structure, taxonomy, and epidemiology

    B.P. Meloni;A.J. Lymbery;R.C.A. Thompson

  • Rostellar hook morphology of Echinococcus granulosus (Batsch, 1786) from natural and experimental Australian hosts, and its implications for strain recognition.

    R. P. Hobbs;A. J. Lymbery;R. C. A. Thompson

  • Adaptive host manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii: fact or fiction?

    Amanda R. Worth;Alan J. Lymbery;R.C. Andrew Thompson

  • Echinococcus canadensis, E. borealis, and E. intermedius. What's in a name?

    Alan J. Lymbery;Emily J. Jenkins;Janna M. Schurer;R.C. Andrew Thompson

  • Phylogenetic Pattern, Evolutionary Processes and Species Delimitation in the Genus Echinococcus.

    A J Lymbery

  • Genetic variation in Giardia Kunstler, 1882: taxonomic and epidemiological significance.

    R. C. A. Thompson;A. J. Lymbery;B. P. Meloni

  • Echinococcus: biology and strain variation.

    R.C.A. Thompson;A.J. Lymbery

  • The molecular epidemiology of parasite infections: tools and applications.

    A.J. Lymbery;R.C.A. Thompson

  • Electrophoretic analysis of genetic variation in Echinococcus granulosus from domestic hosts in Australia

    A.J. Lymbery;R.C.A. Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

R.C.A. Thompson
R.C.A. Thompson Murdoch University
David L. Morgan
David L. Morgan Murdoch University
Stephanie S. Godfrey
Stephanie S. Godfrey University of Otago
Una Ryan
Una Ryan Murdoch University
Aileen Elliot
Aileen Elliot Murdoch University
Rongchang Yang
Rongchang Yang Murdoch University
David J. Hampson
David J. Hampson Murdoch University
Jen A. McComb
Jen A. McComb Murdoch University
Michael E. Grigg
Michael E. Grigg National Institutes of Health
Shokoofeh Shamsi
Shokoofeh Shamsi Charles Sturt University

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