Galleria melonella as an experimental in vivo host model for the fish-pathogenic oomycete Saprolegnia parasitica

Our work is supported by the University of Aberdeen (AW, PvW); BBSRC (BB/M026566/1 & BB/P020224/1: PvW); BBSRC (BB/N005058/1 & BB/J018333/1: FT & PvW); NERC (NE/P010873/1: PvW). We would like to acknowledge Joan Wilson and Bill Mathieson at NHS Grampian Biorepository (Aberdeen, Scotland) for help with histological experiments and Kevin McKenzie and his team at the Microscopy Core facility at the University of Aberdeen for assistance with microscopy and histology.Peer reviewedPublisher PD