Myxozoan and other fish parasites: morphological characterization, life cycle, pathology, ecology, molecular characterization and phylogeny, and all new methods of investigation.
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Post-doctoral contract (2012) at the Lab of Fish Protistology, Institute of Parasitology of Academic Science of the Czech Republic.
Research project at Parasitology Research Lab Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK (2009) Conselleria d’Educació i Cičncia, Spain.
PhD entitled: “Parasitological study of cultured and wild sparids in the Mediterranean” (2007-2011). Supervisors: Astrid S. Holzer and Juan Antonio Raga. University of Valencia, Spain.
Master of Aquaculture (2006-2007) University of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia & Aquaculture Institute of Torre la Sal, CSIC, Spain.
Biology Degree (2000-2006) at University of Valencia, Spain.
PUBLICATIONS
Alama-Bermejo, G., Bron J.E., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2012) 3D morphology, ultrastructure and development of Ceratomyxa puntazzi stages: first insights into the mechanisms of motility and budding in the Myxozoa. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32679. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032679
Alama-Bermejo, G., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2011) Host-parasite relationship of Ceratomyxa puntazzi n. sp. (Myxozoa: Myxosporea) and sharpsnout seabream Diplodus puntazzo (Walbaum, 1792) from the Mediterranean with first data on ceratomyxid host specificity in sparids. Veterinary Parasitology 182, 181-192
Alama-Bermejo, G., Montero, F.E., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2011) Skoulekia meningialis n. gen., n. sp. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912) a parasite surrounding the brain of the Mediterranean common two-banded seabream Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (Teleostei: Sparidae): Description, molecular phylogeny, habitat and pathology. Parasitology International 60, 34–44.
Alama-Bermejo, G., Cuadrado, M., Raga, J. A. and Holzer, A. S. (2009) Morphological and molecular redescription of the myxozoan Unicapsula pflugfelderi from two teleost hosts in the Mediterranean. A review of the genus Unicapsula Davis 1924. Journal of Fish Diseases 32: 335–350.
Feist S., Morris D., Alama Bermejo G.,
Holzer A. (2015) Cellular processes in myxozoans Myxozoan Evolution, Ecology and Development, B. Okamura et al. (Eds.)
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