Fig. 5 Microscopic observations of gill

Figure 5.  Microscopic observations of gill tissue with myxozoan parasites in smallmouth bass collected from the Chesapeake Bay watershed: (A) Heavily infected gill with numerous plasmodia of Myxobolus branchiarum (indicated with an "a") and (B) mixed infection of M. branchiarum (indicated with an "a") and M. micropterii (indicated with a "b") (modified from Walsh and others, 2012).