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THE parasitism of barnacles of many species by various isopods, gregarines and trematodes, often with the resultant castration of the host, is well known. Recent observations on Balanus balanus collected in the Firth of Clyde, at a depth of about 20 metres, have shown that parasitism may not result in complete castration, but only in non-liberation of the nauplii.
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BARNES, H. An Effect of Parasitism on Balanus balanus (L.) da Costa. Nature 172, 128 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172128b0
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