• Salmon louse labial gland enzymes: implications for host settlement and immune modulation 

      Midtbø, Helena Marie Doherty; Eichner, Christiane; Hamre, Lars Are; Dondrup, Michael; Flesland, Linn; Tysseland, Kristoffer Helland; Kongshaug, Heidi; Borchel, Andreas; Nilsen, Frank; Øvergård, Aina-Cathrine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) is a skin- and blood-feeding ectoparasite, infesting salmonids. While feeding, labial gland proteins from the salmon louse may be deposited on the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) skin. ...
    • Small, charged proteins in salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) secretions modulate Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) immune responses and coagulation 

      Øvergård, Aina-Cathrine; Midtbø, Helena Marie Doherty; Hamre, Lars Are; Dondrup, Michael; Bjerga, Gro Elin Kjæreng; Larsen, Øivind; chettri, Jiwan Kumar; Buchmann, Kurt; Nilsen, Frank; Grotmol, Sindre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Little is known about glandular proteins secreted from the skin- and blood-feeding ectoparasite salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis). The labial gland has ducts extending into the oral cavity of the lice, and the present ...