Figure 1

1 Gyrodactylus salaris individual. Electropherogram (Experion) of totalRNA extracted from 1 Gyrodactylus salaris individual using the Phenol-free Total RNA Purification kit from Amresco (AMR). 1% of the extraction was loaded on an Experion RNA HighSens Chip. In Gyrodactylus salaris the 28S RNA is probably autocatalytically degraded as described previously for insects [22, 23]