Pathological investigation of captive invertebrates
Pathological investigation of captive invertebrates
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圈养无脊椎动物的病理学研究
DOI：
10.1111/j.1748-1090.1991.tb03476.x
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发表时间：
1990
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通讯作者：
A. Cunningham
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作者：
J. Cooper;A. Cunningham
像其他生物一样，无脊椎动物易患各种各样的疾病（Frye, 1986）。事实上，第一个被证明是由公认的微生物引起的疾病是1834年在一个蚕群中由霉菌白孢杆菌引起的真菌感染（Bailey, 1981）。从那时起，疾病研究，特别是人类和其他哺乳动物的疾病研究取得了一些进展，但除了对害虫控制的研究和与脊椎动物疾病有关的无脊椎动物的研究之外，关于无脊椎动物诊断病理学的文章很少。然而，随着人们对无脊椎动物的生态重要性和脆弱性的认识不断提高，对诊断病理学的需求也在不断增加。这有很多原因：最近对养殖无脊椎动物作为食品和医疗产品来源的兴趣高涨；医学实验：对无脊椎动物作为医学研究的实验动物的研究；将无脊椎动物作为宠物、教育材料或展览资源的私人、学校、蝴蝶馆和动物园的数量增加；也许最重要的是，越来越需要人工饲养濒危物种（Lees, 1989; Collins, 1990）。
Like other living organisms, invertebrates are susceptible to a wide variety of diseases (Frye, 1986). In fact, the first disease proved to be caused by a recognized micro-organism was a fungal infection, caused by the mould Beauveria bassiana, in a colony of silkworms in 1834 (Bailey, 1981). Since then there have been a number of advances in the study of disease, particularly in humans and other mammals, but apart from research on the control of pests and the study of invertebrates in relation to vertebrate disease, little has been written on diagnostic invertebrate pathology. However, along with the growing awareness of the ecological importance and vulnerability of invertebrates, there is an increasing demand for diagnostic pathology. There are many reasons for this: the recent upsurge of interest in farming invertebrates as a source of food and medical products; the study of invertebrates as experimental animals for medical research; the increase in the number of private individuals, schools, butterfly houses and zoos keeping invertebrates as pets, educational material or exhibition resources; and, perhaps most important, the growing need to breed threatened species in captivity (Lees, 1989; Collins, 1990).