Delane Kritsky, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
kritdela@isu.edu
(208) 282-3726
Room 104 Garrison Hall
Education
B.S., Biology, Mathematics and Education, 1965, Minot State College, Minot, North Dakota
M.S., Zoology, 1967, Sacramento State College, Sacramento, California
Ph.D., Zoology, 1970, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Kritsky is Associate Dean of the Kasiska College of Health Professions and Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences. His research focuses on the biogeograph, evolution and systematics of helminth parasites, particularly the Monogenoidea (Platyhelminthes). Specifically, he has utilized members of the Monogenoidea as models for study of biogeography, speciation and other evolutionary concepts associated with the host-parasite relationship.
Teaching
HE 383, Epidemiology
HE 210, Medical Terminology
Publications
2007. Two-dimensional versus three-dimensional morphometry of monogenoidean sclerites. Int. J. Parasit. In Press (with Galli, P., Strona, G., Villa, A. M., Benzoni, F., Fabrizio, S., Silvia, M.)
2007. Monogenoidean parasites of fishes associated with coral reef in the Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt: preliminary results. Helminthology In Press (with Galli, P., Strona, G. Stefani, F.)
2007. Dactylogyrids (Monogenoidea) parasitizing the gills of spinefoots (Teleostei, Siganidae): Revision of Pseudohaliotrema, with redescriptions of P. sphincteroporus and P. molnari from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Comp. Parasit. 74: 9-22. (with Galli, P.)
2007. Dactylogyrids (Monogenoidea) parasitizing the gills of spinefoots (Teleostei, Siganidae): Proposal of Glyphidohaptor n. gen., with descriptions of two new species from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and redescription of G. plectocirra comb. n. from Ras Mohammad National Park, Egypt. J. Parasit. In Press (with Galli, P. and Yang T)
2007. Dactylogyrids (Monogenoidea) parasitizing the gills of spinefoots (Teleostei, Siganidae): Revision of Tetrancistrum Goto and Kikuchi, 1917, with descriptions of T. strophosolenum sp. n. and T. yamagutii sp. n. from Siganus spp. of the Red Sea and Celebes. J. Nat. Hist. In Press (with Galli, P. and Yang T.)
Kritsky, D. C., Vianna, R. T. and W. A. Boeger. 2007. Neotropical Monogenoidea. 50. Oviparous gyrodactylids from loricariid and pimelodid catfishes in Brazil, with proposal of Phanerothecioides n. gen., Onychogyrodactylus n. gen. and Aglaiogyrodactylus n. gen. (Polyonchoinea, Gyrodactylidea). Syst. Parasit. 66: 1-34. (with Vianna, R. T. and W. A. Boeger)
2007. Polylabris lingaoensis sp. n. and Polylabris cf. mamaevi Ogawa and Egusa, 1980 (Monogenoidea, Microcotylidae) in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea. Folia Parasitol. In Press (with Yang T. and Pan J.)
2006. Three-dimensional imaging of monogenoidean sclerites by laser scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy. J. Parasit. 92: 395-399. (with Galli, P., Strona, G., Villa, A. M., Benzoni, F., Fabrizio, S., Doglia, S. M.)
2006. Diplectanids infesting the gills of barramundi, Lates calcarifer (Perciformes: Centropomidae), with proposal of Laticola n. gen. (Monogenoidea: Diplectanidae). Syst. Parasit. 63: 127-141. (with Yang T., Sun Y., Zhang J., Shi S. and N. Agrawal)
Boeger, W. A., Kritsky, D. C., Pie, M. R. and K. B. Engers. 2005. Mode of transmission, host switching and escape from the Red Queen by viviparous gyrodactylids (Monogenoidea). J. Parasit. 91: 1000-1007. (with Boeger, W. A., Pie, M. R. and K. B. Engers)
2005. New species of Gyrodactylus (Monogenoidea: Gyrodactylidae) from the White Sands pupfish, Cyprinodon tularosa, in New Mexico. Southwest. Nat. 50: 312-317 (Stockwell, C. A.)
2004. Neotropical Monogenoidea. 46. Three new species from the gills of introduced aquarium fishes in India, proposal of Heterotylus gen. n. and Diaphorocleidus gen. n. and reassignment of some previously described species of Urocleidoides (Polyonchoinea: Dactylogyridae). Systematic Parasitology 58: 115-124. (with Jogunoori, W. and J. Venkatanarasaiah)
2004. Monogenoids from the gills of spiny eels (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae) in India and Iraq, proposal of Mastacembelocleidus gen. n., and status of the Indian species of Actinocleidus, Urocleidus and Haplocleidus (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae). Folia Parasit. 51: 291-298. (with Pandey, K. C., Agrawal, N. and S. M. A. Abdullah)
Mendoza-Franco, Kritsky, D. C., Vidal-Martinez, V. M., Scholz, T. and Ma. L. Aguirre-Macedo. 2004. Neotropical Monogenoidea. 45. Revision of Diplectanocotyla Yamaguti, 1953 (Diplectanidae) with redescription of Diplectanocotyla megalopis Rakotofiringa and Oliver, 1987 on Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus Cuvier and Valenciennes, from Nicaragua and Mexico. Comp. Parasit. 71: 158-165. (with Mendoza-Franco, Vidal-Martinez, V. M., Scholz, T. and Ma. L. Aguirre-Macedo)
2004. Dactylogyrids (Platyhelminthes: Monogenoidea) parasitizing butterfly fishes (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) from the coral reefs of Palau, Moorea, Wallis, New Caledonia and Australia: Species of Euryhaliotrematoides gen. n. and Aliatrema gen. n. J. Parasit. 90: 328-341. (with Plaisance, L.)
Yang T., Kritsky, D. C. and Sun Y. 2004. Revision of Allobenedenia Yamaguti, 1963 (Monogenoidea, Capsalidae) with the description of Allobenedenia zhangi n. sp. from Epinephelus fasciatus (Teleostei, Serranidae) in the South China Sea. Syst. Parasit. 59: 223-233. (with Yang T. and Sun Y.)