Louis Euzet
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Louis Euzet in 2003
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July 27, 1923 Lézignan-Corbières, France |
| Died | September 24, 2013 (aged 90) Sète, France |
| Residence | Sète, Montpellier, Perpignan |
| Citizenship | French |
| Fields | Parasitology, Helminthology |
| Institutions | University of Montpellier, Station Biologique de Sète |
| Education | University of Montpellier, France |
| Alma mater | University of Montpellier, France |
| Thesis | Recherches sur les Cestodes Tétraphyllides des Sélaciens des côtes de France (1956) |
| Notable students | Claude Combes |
| Known for | Monogenea, Cestoda |
| Influenced | many, see text |
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| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Euzet |
Louis Euzet (27 July 1923 in Lézignan-Corbières, France – 24 September 2013 in Sète, France) was a French parasitologist.
Louis Euzet was a high-school student in Narbonne, France, and a student of the University of Montpellier (in the then “Faculté des Sciences”). He obtained his bachelor's degree (Licence) in 1947. He prepared his doctoral thesis in the Station de Biologie Marine at Sète, under the direction of Paul Mathias and Jean-George Baer; the thesis, on tetraphyllidean cestodes, was accepted on 16 June 1956.
Louis Euzet was a junior lecturer at the Station de Biologie Marine in Sète in 1947. He was appointed Professor in the recently created “Collège Scientifique Universitaire” at Perpignan in 1959. He moved in 1969 to the University of Montpellier, where he established his Laboratoire de Parasitologie Comparée (Laboratory of Comparative Parasitology). He retired in 1991, became an Emeritus Professor in 1992 and pursued his scientific work at the Station de Biologie Marine in Sète, where he was still active in 2012, aged 89. He occupied the same room in the Station de Biologie Marine at Sète for more than 60 years.
After a doctoral thesis on parasitic cestodes, Euzet progressively extended his expertise to monogeneans and a variety of fish parasites. He authored about 200 scientific publications between 1951 and 2012, described more than 60 new species of cestodes and more than 200 new species of monogeneans, and worked on the life-cycles and evolution of parasites. With his students, he also worked on monogeneans of freshwater fishes from several countries in Africa (Benin, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire). He also wrote seminal work on parasite specificity and the speciation of both monogeneans and cestodes. Louis Euzet created the concept of alloxenic speciation, i.e. the speciation of parasites linked with the behaviour and ecology of the host, and was one of the first to propose schemes of coevolution between monogeneans and elasmobranchs. His laboratory in Montpellier was a hub where many students and researchers visited, and his small laboratory in the Station de Biologie Marine at Sète was still much frequented 10 years after his official retirement.
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