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Sascha L. Hallett is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research spans several main fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, and Immunology and Microbiology. Their work addresses subfields such as Cancer Research, Ecology, Microbiology, Immunology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics related to Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species, Microbial Infections and Disease Research, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hallett include Stephen D. Atkinson, Jerri L. Bartholomew, Nicholas A. Som, Julie D. Alexander, and J. Scott Foott.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals with multiple contributions to Parasitology Research, as well as works published in San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, Parasitology, and International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife.

Key recent papers by Sascha L. Hallett include:

  • Validation of environmental DNA sampling for determination of Ceratonova shasta (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) distribution in Plumas National Forest, CA, 2020, Parasitology Research
  • Disease in Central Valley Salmon: Status and Lessons from Other Systems, 2020, San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
  • Prevalence of Infection in Hatchery-Origin Chinook Salmon Correlates with Abundance of Ceratonova shasta Spores: Implications for Management and Disease Risk, 2020, North American Journal of Fisheries Management
  • Ceratonova shasta: a cnidarian parasite of annelids and salmonids, 2022, Parasitology
  • Morphological and molecular characterization of Ceratomyxa binhthuanensis n. sp. (Myxosporea: Ceratomyxidae) from the gall bladder of blacktip grouper Epinephelus fasciatus (Perciformes: Serranidae) in the East Sea of Vietnam, 2022, Parasitology Research

Best Publications

  • Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of the Myxozoa

    Michael L. Kent;Karl B. Andree;Jerri L. Bartholomew;Mansour El-Matbouli

  • Ultrastructure and small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequence of Henneguya lesteri n. sp. (Myxosporea), a parasite of sand whiting Sillago analis (Sillaginidae) from the coast of Queensland, Australia.

    Sascha L. Hallett;Ariel Diamant

  • Application of a real-time PCR assay to detect and quantify the myxozoan parasite Ceratomyxa shasta in river water samples.

    Sascha L. Hallett;Jerri L. Bartholomew

  • INVOLVEMENT OF MANAYUNKIA SPECIOSA (ANNELIDA: POLYCHAETA: SABELLIDAE) IN THE LIFE CYCLE OF PARVICAPSULA MINIBICORNIS, A MYXOZOAN PARASITE OF PACIFIC SALMON

    Jerri L. Bartholomew;Stephen D. Atkinson;Sascha L. Hallett

  • Density of the Waterborne Parasite Ceratomyxa shasta and Its Biological Effects on Salmon

    Sascha L. Hallett;R. Adam Ray;Charlene N. Hurst;Richard A. Holt

  • Myxozoan parasitism in waterfowl

    Jerri L. Bartholomew;Stephen D. Atkinson;Stephen D. Atkinson;Sascha L. Hallett;Linda J. Lowenstine

  • Effects of water flow on the infection dynamics of Myxobolus cerebralis

    S. L. Hallett;J. L. Bartholomew

  • Structure and development of a marine actinosporean, Sphaeractinomyxon ersei n. sp. (Myxozoa).

    Sascha L. Hallett;Peter J. O'Donoghue;Robert J. G. Lester

  • Actinosporeans (Myxozoa) from marine oligochaetes of the Great Barrier Reef

    Sascha L. Hallett;Christer Erséus;Robert J.G. Lester

  • Molecular characterisation of two aurantiactinomyxon (Myxozoa) phenotypes reveals one genotype

    S L Hallett;S D Atkinson;M El-Matbouli

  • Molecular methods clarify morphometric variation in triactinomyxon spores (Myxozoa) released from different oligochaete hosts.

    Sascha L. Hallett;Stephen D. Atkinson;Christer Erséus;Mansour El-Matbouli

  • Expanded geographical distribution of Myxobolus cerebralis: first detections from Alaska

    E L Arsan;S D Atkinson;S D Atkinson;S L Hallett;T Meyers

  • Some remarks on the occurrence, host-specificity and validity of Myxobolus rotundus Nemeczek, 1911 (Myxozoa: Myxosporea)

    Kálmán Molnár;Csaba Székely;Sascha L. Hallett;Stephen D. Atkinson

  • Myxozoans Exploiting Homeotherms

    Sascha L. Hallett;Stephen D. Atkinson;Jerri L. Bartholomew;Csaba Székely

  • Development and application of a duplex QPCR for river water samples to monitor the myxozoan parasite Parvicapsula minibicornis

    Sascha L. Hallett;Jerri L. Bartholomew

  • Genotyping of individual Ceratonova shasta (Cnidaria: Myxosporea) myxospores reveals intra-spore ITS-1 variation and invalidates the distinction of genotypes II and III

    Stephen D Atkinson;Sascha L Hallett;Jerri L Bartholomew

  • Myxobolus cerebralis and Ceratomyxa shasta.

    S. L. Hallett;J. L. Bartholomew;P. T. K. Woo;K. Buchmann

  • Complete life cycle of Myxobolus rotundus (Myxosporea: Myxobolidae), a gill myxozoan of common bream Abramis brama

    Csaba Székely;S. L. Hallett;Stephen D. Atkinson;Kálmán Molnár

  • Seasonal occurrence of actinosporeans (Myxozoa) and oligochaetes (Annelida) at a trout hatchery in Bavaria, Germany.

    M. Oumouna;S. L. Hallett;R. W. Hoffmann;M. El-Matbouli

  • Actinosporeans (Myxozoa) with four developingspores within a pansporocyst: Tetraspora discoidea n.g.n.sp. and Tetraspora rotundum n.sp.

    Sascha L Hallett;Robert J.G Lester

  • Distribution and abundance of the salmonid parasite Parvicapsula minibicornis (Myxozoa) in the Klamath River basin (Oregon-California, USA)

    Jerri L. Bartholomew;Stephen D. Atkinson;Sascha L. Hallett;Christopher M. Zielinski

  • Comparative Epidemiology of Myxozoan Diseases

    Inês Fontes;Sascha L. Hallett;Tor Atle Mo

  • Parasite fauna of Australian marine oligochaetes

    S. L. Hallett;C. Erséus;P. J. O'Donoghue;R. J. G. Lester

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerri L. Bartholomew
Jerri L. Bartholomew Oregon State University
Stephen D. Atkinson
Stephen D. Atkinson Oregon State University
Mansour El-Matbouli
Mansour El-Matbouli University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Christer Erséus
Christer Erséus University of Gothenburg
Peter J. O'Donoghue
Peter J. O'Donoghue University of Queensland
Csaba Székely
Csaba Székely Institute for Veterinary Medical Research
Kálmán Molnár
Kálmán Molnár Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Beatriz Martínez-López
Beatriz Martínez-López University of California, Davis
Elizabeth U. Canning
Elizabeth U. Canning Imperial College London
Ronald P. Hedrick
Ronald P. Hedrick University of California, Davis

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