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

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:
Kvitt H., Heinisch G., Diamant A. (2008). Detection and phylogeny of Lymphocystivirus in sea bream Sparus aurata based on the DNA polymerase gene and major capsid protein sequences. Aquaculture 275:58-63.

Perlberg, S.T., Diamant, A., Ofir R., Zilberg D. (2008). Characterization of swim bladder non-inflation (SBN) in angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare (Schultz), and the effect of exposure to methylene blue. J Fish Dis. 31:215-228.

Cuadrado M., Marques A., Diamant A., Sitja-Bobadilla A., Palenzuela O., Alvarez-Pellitero P., Padros F., Crespo S. (2008). Ultrastructure of Enteromyxum leei (Diamant, Lom & Dykova, 1994), an enteric parasite infecting gilthead sea bream ( Sparus aurata) and sharpsnout sea bream ( Diplodus puntazzo). J. Euk. Microbiol. 55:178-184.

Cuadrado, M., Albinyana, G., Padros, F., Redondo, M.J., Sitja-Bobadilla, A., Alvarez-Pellitero, P., Palenzuela, O., Diamant, A. and Crespo, S. (2007). An unidentified epi-epithelial myxosporean in the intestine of gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata L. Parasitol. Res. 101:403-411

Diamant, A., Lipshitz, A. and Ucko, M. (2007). Phylogeny of Coccomyxa (Myxosporea: Myxidiidae) spp. with the description of a new species from Bathygobius cyclopterus (Gobiidae) in the northern Red Sea. Folia. Parasitol. 54:109-116

Sitja-Bobadilla, A., Diamant, A., Palenzuela, O. and Alvarez-Pellitero, P. (2007). Effect of host factors and experimental conditions on the transmission of Enteromyxum leei (Myxozoa) to gilthead sea bream Sparus aurata L. and European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax L. J. Fish Dis. 30:243-250.

Pasternak, Z., Diamant, A. and Abelson, A. (2007). Co-invasion of a Red Sea fish and its ectoparasitic monogenean, Polylabris cf. mamaevi into the Mediterranean: observations on oncomiracidium behavior and infection levels in both seas. Parasitol. Res. 100:721-727.

Diamant, A., Ram, R. Paperna, I. (2006). Experimental transmission of Enteromyxum leei to freshwater fish. Dis. of Aquat. Organ. 72:171-178.

Diamant, A., Ucko, M., Paperna, I., Colorni, A., Lipshitz, A. (2005). Kudoa iwatai (Myxosporea: Multivalvulidae) from wild and cultured fishes in the Red Sea: re-description, ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny. J. Parasitol. 91:1175-1189.

Diamant, A., Whipps, C.M. and Kent, M.L. (2004). A new species of Sphaeromyxa (Myxosporea: Sphaeromyxina: Sphaeromyxidae), in devil firefish Pterois miles (Scorpaenidae) from the northern Red Sea : morphology, ultrastructure and phylogeny. J. Parasitol. 90:1434-1442.

Ucko, M., Colorni, A. and Diamant, A. (2004). Nodavirus infections in Israeli mariculture. J. Fish Dis. 27:459-469.

Zilberg, D., Ofir, R., Rabinski T. and Diamant, A. (2004). Morphological and genetic characterization of swimbladder non-inflation in angelfish Pterophyllum scalare (Cichlidae). Aquaculture 230:13-27.