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Andrew P. Shinn is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom and has a research focus predominantly in the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their scholarly contributions span multiple subfields, particularly Immunology, Aquatic Science, Ecology, Endocrinology, and Molecular Biology.

Their research centers on topics related to aquaculture, including disease management and microbiota, nutrition and growth, Vibrio bacteria studies, parasite biology and host interactions, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, myxozoan parasites in aquatic species, and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis.

Recent publications by Andrew P. Shinn include:

  • "Biosecurity: Reducing the burden of disease" (2023), published in the Journal of the World Aquaculture Society
  • "A global review of problematic and pathogenic parasites of farmed tilapia" (2023), published in Reviews in Aquaculture
  • "Diseases of marine fish and shellfish in an age of rapid climate change" (2024), published in iScience
  • "Review of quorum-quenching probiotics: A promising non-antibiotic-based strategy for sustainable aquaculture" (2024), published in Journal of Fish Diseases
  • "Unveiling associations between ciliate parasites and bacterial microbiomes under warm-water fish farm conditions - a review" (2020), published in Reviews in Aquaculture

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew P. Shinn include:

  • Ha Thanh Dong
  • Saengchan Senapin
  • Nguyen Dinh-Hung
  • Channarong Rodkhum
  • Satid Chatchaiphan

Andrew P. Shinn has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Aquaculture
  • Fish & Shellfish Immunology
  • Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Journal of Fish Diseases
  • Aquaculture International

Best Publications

  • Economic costs of protistan and metazoan parasites to global mariculture

    Andrew Shinn;Jarunan Pratoomyot;James Bron;Giuseppe Paladini

  • Asian Shrimp Production and the Economic Costs of Disease

    A.P. Shinn

  • Review of climate change impacts on marine aquaculture in the UK and Ireland

    Ruth Callaway;Andrew P. Shinn;Suzanne E. Grenfell;James E. Bron

  • Nominal species of the genus Gyrodactylus von Nordmann 1832 (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae), with a list of principal host species

    Philip D Harris;Andrew Shinn;Joanne Cable;Torr A Bakke

  • The use of morphometric characters to discriminate specimens of laboratory-reared and wild populations of Gyrodactylus salaris and G. thymalli (Monogenea).

    Andrew P. Shinn;Haakon Hansen;Kjetil Olstad;Lutz Bachmann

  • Phylogenetic and antigenic characterization of new fish nodavirus isolates from Europe and Asia.

    George P. Skliris;John V. Krondiris;Diamantis C. Sideris;Andrew P. Shinn

  • An assessment of the use of drug and non-drug interventions in the treatment of Ichthyophthirius multifiliis Fouquet, 1876, a protozoan parasite of freshwater fish.

    Sara M Picon-Camacho;Mar Marcos-Lopez;James Bron;Andrew Shinn

  • Gill histopathology of cultured European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (L.), infected with Diplectanum aequans (Wagener 1857) Diesing 1958 (Diplectanidae: Monogenea)

    Bahram S. Dezfuli;Luisa Giari;Edi Simoni;Roberto Menegatti

  • Treatment of gyrodactylid infections in fish.

    Bettina Schelkle;Andrew P Shinn;Edmund Peeler;Joanne Cable

  • Bacillary necrosis in farmed Pangasius hypophthalmus (Sauvage) from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

    Hugh Ferguson;James Turnbull;Andrew Shinn;Kimberly Thompson

  • Parasitic Diseases in Aquaculture: Their Biology, Diagnosis and Control

    Giuseppe Paladini;Matt Longshaw;Andrea Gustinelli;Andrew P. Shinn

  • Economic impacts of aquatic parasites on global finfish production

    Andrew Shinn;Jarunan Pratoomyot;James Bron;Giuseppe Paladini

  • Changes in the neuromodulators of the diffuse endocrine system of the alimentary canal of farmed rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), naturally infected with Eubothrium crassum (Cestoda).

    Giampaolo Bosi;Andrew Shinn;Luisa Giari;Edi Simoni

  • Manipulation of farmed Atlantic salmon swimming behaviour through the adjustment of lighting and feeding regimes as a tool for salmon lice control

    Benedikt Frenzl;Lars Helge Stien;David Cockerill;Frode Oppedal

  • Proliferative cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) expression in the intestine of Salmo trutta trutta naturally infected with an acanthocephalan.

    Bahram Sayyaf Dezfuli;Luisa Giari;Alice Lui;Samantha Squerzanti

  • Systemic nocardiosis in a Mediterranean population of cultured meagre, Argyrosomus regius Asso (Perciformes: Sciaenidae).

    Ahmed Elkesh;K P L Kantham;Andrew Shinn;Margaret Crumlish

  • The efficacy of selected plant extracts and bioflavonoids in controlling infections of Saprolegnia australis (Saprolegniales; Oomycetes)

    Saviour Caruana;Gil Ha Yoon;Gil Ha Yoon;Mark Freeman;James Mackie

  • A revised description of Gyrodactylus cichlidarum Paperna, 1968 (Gyrodactylidae) from the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (Cichlidae), and its synonymy with G. niloticus Cone, Arthur et Bondad-Reantaso, 1995.

    Adriana García-Vásquez;Haakon Hansen;Andrew P. Shinn

  • The first report of Gyrodactylus salaris Malmberg 1957 (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea) on Italian cultured stocks of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum).

    Giuseppe Paladini;Andrea Gustinelli;Maria L. Fioravanti;Haakon Hansen

  • Description of three new species of Gyrodactylus von Nordmann, 1832 (Monogenea) parasitising Oreochromis niloticus niloticus (L.) and O. mossambicus (Peters) (Cichlidae)

    Adriana García-Vásquez;Haakon Hansen;Kevin W. Christison;James E. Bron

  • Gyrodactylus salinae n. sp. (Platyhelminthes: Monogenea) infecting the south European toothcarp Aphanius fasciatus (Valenciennes) (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae) from a hypersaline environment in Italy

    Giuseppe Paladini;Tine Huyse;Andrew P Shinn

  • Distribution and characterization of species of Gyrodactylus Nordmann, 1832 (Monogenea) parasitizing salmonids in the UK, and their discrimination from G. salaris Malmberg, 1957

    Andrew Shinn;Christina Sommerville;David Gibson

  • Histopathology and the inflammatory response of European perch, Perca fluviatilis muscle infected with Eustrongylides sp. (Nematoda)

    Bahram S Dezfuli;Maurizio Manera;Massimo Lorenzoni;Flavio Pironi

  • Survey of actinosporean types (Myxozoa) belonging to seven collective groups found in a freshwater salmon farm in Northern Scotland.

    Ahmet Özer;Rodney Wootten;Andrew P. Shinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina Sommerville
Christina Sommerville University of Stirling
Bahram S. Dezfuli
Bahram S. Dezfuli University of Ferrara
David I. Gibson
David I. Gibson Natural History Museum
Joanne Cable
Joanne Cable Cardiff University
Tomáš Scholz
Tomáš Scholz Czech Academy of Sciences
Randolph H. Richards
Randolph H. Richards University of Stirling
Hugh W. Ferguson
Hugh W. Ferguson St. George's University
Vladimíra Hanzelová
Vladimíra Hanzelová Institute of Parasitology
Roman Kuchta
Roman Kuchta Czech Academy of Sciences
Tor A. Bakke
Tor A. Bakke University of Oslo

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