Effects of severe heat stress on immune function, biochemistry and histopathology in farmed Australian abalone (hybrid Haliotis laevigata x Haliotis rubra)

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the Australian Government Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC grant No. 2004/233), which supplied the funding for this research; Great Southern Waters Limited for allowing the research to be carried out and supporting it on their abalone farm; Bruce Abaloz of the University of Melbourne and Jo Mercuri and Kelly Saint at Gribbles Veterinary Pathology for processing the Histology; Phuong Nguyen and Charan Walia of Gribbles Veterinary Pathology for the biochemistry processing and John Ahern who runs the aquarium in the Department of Zoology in the University of Melbourne and helped me set up the tanks.