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Overview

Pierre Sasal is affiliated with the University of Perpignan in France and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including Ecology, Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed to the study of several main topics within these fields, such as:

  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota
  • Reproductive Biology and Impacts on Aquatic Species
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Marine and Fisheries Research

Sasal's recent published works include:

  • Moving towards more sustainable aquaculture practices: a meta-analysis on the potential of plant-enriched diets to improve fish growth, immunity and disease resistance (2020), published in Reviews in Aquaculture
  • Important questions to progress science and sustainable management of anguillid eels (2021), published in Fish and Fisheries
  • Gorgocephalidae (Digenea: Lepocreadioidea) in the Indo-West Pacific: new species, life-cycle data and perspectives on species delineation over geographic range (2021), published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Individual back-calculated size-at-age based on otoliths from Pacific coral reef fish species (2020), published in Scientific Data
  • Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in the global cleaner reef fish fauna (2021), published in Journal of Biogeography

Frequent collaborators in Sasal's work include:

  • Nathalie Tapissier-Bontemps
  • Michael J. Miller
  • Elisabeth Faliex
  • Scott C. Cutmore
  • Thomas H. Cribb

The scientist has published repeatedly in various academic venues. Notably, they have contributed multiple times to Progress In Oceanography, in addition to publications in Reviews in Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, and Scientific Data.

Best Publications

  • Use of plant extracts in fish aquaculture as an alternative to chemotherapy: Current status and future perspectives

    M. Reverter;M. Reverter;N. Bontemps;D. Lecchini;B. Banaigs

  • Biological and Ecological Roles of External Fish Mucus: A Review

    Miriam Reverter;Nathalie Tapissier-Bontemps;David Lecchini;Bernard Banaigs

  • Synergistic patterns of threat and the challenges facing global anguillid eel conservation

    David M.P. Jacoby;John M. Casselman;Vicki Crook;Mari-Beth DeLucia

  • Specificity and host predictability: a comparative analysis among monogenean parasites of fish

    P. Sasal;S. Trouvé;C. Müller‐Graf;S. Morand

  • Moving towards more sustainable aquaculture practices: a meta‐analysis on the potential of plant‐enriched diets to improve fish growth, immunity and disease resistance

    Miriam Reverter;Nathalie Tapissier‐Bontemps;Samira Sarter;Pierre Sasal

  • Determinants of parasite species richness in Mediterranean marine fishes

    P. Sasal;S. Morand;Jean-François Guégan

  • Use of Medicinal Plants in Aquaculture

    Miriam Reverter;Nathalie Tapissier‐Bontemps;Pierre Sasal;Denis Saulnier

  • Important questions to progress science and sustainable management of anguillid eels

    David Righton;David Righton;Adam Piper;Kim Aarestrup;Elsa Amilhat

  • Life history and parasites of the invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) along a latitudinal gradient

    Lluís Benejam;Carles Alcaraz;Pierre Sasal;Gael Simon-Levert

  • Community structure of digenean parasites of sparid and labrid fishes of the Mediterranean sea: a new approach.

    P. Sasal;N. Niquil;P. Bartoli

  • Endoparasite species richness of New Caledonian butterfly fishes : host density and diet matter

    S. Morand;T.H. Cribb;Michel Kulbicki;M.C. Rigby

  • Dynamic expression of immune response genes in the sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, experimentally infected with the monogenean Diplectanum aequans

    Elisabeth Faliex;Catherine Da Silva;Gaël Simon;Pierre Sasal

  • Parasites of recruiting coral reef fish larvae in New Caledonia

    Thomas H Cribb;Sylvie Pichelin;Vincent Dufour;Rodney A Bray

  • Cleaner-client interactions on a Caribbean reef: Influence of correlates of parasitism

    C. Arnal;I. M. Côté;P. Sasal;S. Morand

  • The evolution of life-history traits in parasitic and free-living platyhelminthes : a new perspective

    Sandrine Trouvé;Pierre Sasal;Joseph Jourdane;François Renaud

  • The use of fish parasites as biological indicators of anthropogenic influences in coral-reef lagoons: a case study of Apogonidae parasites in New-Caledonia.

    Pierre Sasal;David Mouillot;Renaud Fichez;Sandrine Chifflet

  • Fish Health and Fisheries, Implications for Stock Assessment and Management: The Mediterranean Example

    J. Lloret;E. Faliex;G. E. Shulman;J.-A. Raga

  • Host‐specialization and species diversity in fish parasites: phylogenetic conservatism?

    Pierre Sasal;Yves Desdevises;Serge Morand

  • A review of selected indicators of particle, nutrient and metal inputs in coral reef lagoon systems

    Renaud Fichez;Medhi Adjeroud;Yves-Marie Bozec;Ludovic Breau

  • Comparative analysis: a tool for studying monogenean ecology and evolution.

    Pierre Sasal;Serge Morand

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Morand
Serge Morand Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas H. Cribb
Thomas H. Cribb University of Queensland
Hélène Moné
Hélène Moné University of Perpignan
René Galzin
René Galzin University of Perpignan
Michel Kulbicki
Michel Kulbicki Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
David Lecchini
David Lecchini PSL University
Katsumi Tsukamoto
Katsumi Tsukamoto University of Tokyo
Milan Gelnar
Milan Gelnar Masaryk University
Rodney A. Bray
Rodney A. Bray Natural History Museum

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