National Center for Mariculture
Ariel Diamant
diamant@ocean.org.il
Tel: 08 – 6361428
Senior Scientist; Head, National Center for Mariculture, Eilat
Ph.D. 1985, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
At IOLR since 1986
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Research interests:
Fish parasite development, life
cycles and population studies
Fish and shellfish pathology
Marine
ecology
Disease interactions between aquaculture and the environment
Selected publications
(2014 - ):
Diamant A. , Rothman, B.S., Goren,
M., Galil, B., Yokes B., Szitenberg A., Huchon D. (2014). A new
xenoma-forming gonadotropic microsporidium (Microsporidia:
Enterocytozoonidae) parasitic on the invasive blotchfin dragonet,
Callionymus filamentosus (Teleostei: Callionymidae): development,
pathogenesis and epizootiology. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 109: 35–54
doi: 10.3354/dao02718
Fishelson, L., Golani, D., Diamant,
A. (2014). SEM study of the oral cavity of members of the
Kyphosidae and Girellidae (Pisces, Teleostei), with remarks on
Crenidens (Sparidae), focusing on teeth and taste bud numbers and
distribution. Zoology 117: 12-130.
Colorni, A., Diamant,
A. (2014). Infectious diseases of warmwater fish in marine and
brackish waters. In: Diseases and disorders of finfish in cage culture –
2nd edition, P T K Woo and D W Bruno, editors. CABI publishing, pp.
155-192.
Stern, N., Levitt, Y., Galil, B.S., Diamant,
A., Yokes, M.B., M. Goren, M. (2014). Distribution and population
structure of the alien Indo-Pacific Randall’s threadfin bream
Nemipterus randalli in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of
Fish Biology doi:10.1111/jfb.12421.
Dray, L., Neuhof, M.,
Diamant, A., Huchon, D. (2014). The complete
mitochondrial genome of the gilthead seabream Sparus aurata L.
(Sparidae). Mitochondrial DNA, DOI:
10.3109/19401736.2014.928861.
Dray, L., Neuhof, M.,
Diamant, A., Huchon, D. (2014). The complete
mitochondrial genome of the devil firefish Pterois miles
(Bennett, 1828) (Scorpaenidae). Mitochondrial DNA, DOI:
10.3109/19401736.2014.945565.
Shpirer, E. Chang, E.S.,
Diamant, A., Rubinstein N., Cartwright P., Huchon D.
(2014). Diversity and evolution of myxozoan minicollagens and
nematogalectins. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 205.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/205.
Eszterbauer, E.,
El-Matbouli, M., Atkinson, S., Diamant, A., Morris D.,
Hartikainen H. (2015). Life cycles and drivers of development In: Myxozoan
Evolution, Ecology and Development, B. Okamura, A. Gruhl and J.
Bartholomew, Eds. Springer Verlag.
Azzurro, E., Goren, M.,
Diamant, A., Galil, B., Bernardi G. (2015). Establishing
the identity and assessing the dynamics of invasion in the Mediterranean
Sea by the dusky sweeper, Pempheris rhomboidea Kossmann & Rauber, 1877
(Pempheridae, Perciformes). Biological Invasions DOI
10.1007/s10530-014-0836-5.