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At all eight sites with high infection rates (&gt; 9%) during fall\/winter, the number of parasitized individuals decreased dramatically in spring\/summer. The body length of the infected individuals was 20\u201345 mm, corresponding to yearlings or fish that had just turned 1 year old; no infestation was observed in older fish. In fall\/winter, sites with high parasitism had significantly lower flow velocities and significantly higher electrical conductivity and total organic carbon compared to sites with no parasitism. In conclusion, infection with M. nagaraensis appears to occur locally through the migration of young R. flumineus into small, eutrophic tributaries with slow currents that are suitable for Oligochaeta habitat, and most of the infected fish subsequently die.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2108\/zs250110","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,10]],"date-time":"2026-04-10T06:15:51Z","timestamp":1775801751000},"page":"280-287","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Infestation of Rhinogobius flumineus (Family Gobiidae) by the Myxozoan Myxobolus nagaraensis in the Nagara River System, Central Japan"],"prefix":"10.2108","volume":"43","author":[{"given":"Yasunori","family":"Koya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shungo","family":"Matsuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kaede","family":"Ohno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takashi","family":"Miyake","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"848","reference":[{"key":"8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"E Jim\u00e9nez-Guri, H Philippe, B Okamura, et al.  \"Science.\"  317, \"Buddenvrockia is a cnidarian worm.\" 116 (2007)","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1142024"},{"key":"12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"K Kurusu, N Hioki, M Shima, et al.  \"Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl.\"  25, \"Genetic variability of Myxobolus nagaraensis (Bivalvulida: Myxobolidae) infecting freshwater gobies Rhinogobius Gill 1859 (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from rivers in Japan.\" 100985 (2024)","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijppaw.2024.100985"},{"key":"21","unstructured":"H Yokoyama,  \"Jpn J Protozool.\"  37, \"Life cycle and evolutionary origin of myxozoan parasites of fishes.\" 1 (2004)"},{"key":"22","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"H Yokoyama, T Kageyama, K Ohara, et al.  \"Fish Sci.\"  73, \"Myxobolus nagaraensis n. sp. 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