Aquaculture Virology

by Frederick S.B. Kibenge (Editor), Marcos G Godoy (Editor)

Overview

To date textbooks on viruses infecting fish, crustaceans and molluscs, the three main aquatic animal farmed groups, have been on the whole “diseases-centric” and individual viral diseases selected based on “epizoo-centric” approaches with little to no coverage of the basic biology of the viruses, in contrast to textbooks on viruses infecting terrestrial – farmed, pet, and free-range (wild) – animals and humans. Despite considerable advances in animal virology in recent years coupled with an economically important global aquaculture industry, knowledge of viruses of animal aquaculture is still sparse and in some cases outdated although these viruses are closely related to well-known virus families. The last book in fish virology (Fish viruses and fish viral diseases 1988, Wolf, K.) was published in the 1980s. A lot of work has been done on fish viruses and many new aquatic animal viruses continue to be discovered. Aquaculture Virology provides the current state of knowledge of aquatic animal viruses within the current virus classification and taxonomic context thereby allowing the reader to draw on the principles of general virology. This book is a systematic and concise resource useful to anyone involved with or looking to move into aquaculture and fisheries. Clinical veterinarians, aquaculture disease practitioners, biologists, farmers, and all those in industry, government or academia who are interested in aquatic animal virology will find this book extremely useful.

• Provides unique comprehensive information on animal viruses for aquaculture and fisheries
• Presents high quality illustrations of viral structure, diagrams of viral disease processes, gross pathology and histopathology lesions, and summary tables to aid in understanding
• Describes aquatic animal viruses of the three major aquatic animals, fish, crustaceans, and molluscs, within the current virus classification and taxonomic context thereby allowing the reader to draw on the principles of general virology

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128017548
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/11/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	568
File size:	47 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Frederick Kibenge is Professor of Virology at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island. He obtained his BVM from Makerere University and his PhD from Murdoch University, and he is the former Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Microbiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College. Dr. Kibenge has more than 30 years of experience investigating animal viruses and the biology of viral pathogens. His research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of virus virulence to improve on methods of virus detection and control.
Dr. Marcos Godoy is a field veterinarian and Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Veterinary School of San Sebastian University. He is also Technical Director at Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas (CIBA). His work focuses on pathology, diagnostic equipment, and associated services in fish and molluscan aquaculture. His recent research interests include investigating disease outbreaks of salmonids in Chilean aquaculture operations

Table of Contents

General Aspects 1. Introduction to aquaculture and fisheries 2. Classification and identification of aquatic animal viruses 3. Unclassified and unassigned aquatic animal viruses 4. Diagnosis of aquatic animal viral diseases 5. Prevention and control of aquatic animal viral diseases 6. Determinants of emergence of viral diseases in aquaculture

DNA Viruses of Fish 7. Poxviruses of fish 8. Iridoviruses of fish 9. Alloherpesviruses of fish 10. Adenoviruses of fish 11. Papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses of fish 12. Circoviruses of fish

RNA Viruses of Fish 13. Retroviruses of fish 14. Reoviruses of aquatic organisms 15. Birnaviruses of aquatic organisms 16. Totiviruses of fish 17. Paramyxoviruses of fish 18. Rhabdoviruses of fish 19. Orthomyxoviruses of fish 20. Coronaviruses of aquatic organisms 21. Picornaviruses of fish 22. Caliciviruses of fish 23. Togaviruses of fish 24. Hepeviruses of fish 25. Nodaviruses of fish

DNA Viruses of Crustaceans 26. Nimaviruses of crustaceans 27. Nudiviruses and other large, double-stranded circular DNA viruses of invertebrates: New insights on an old topic 28. Historic emergence, impact and current status of shrimp pathogens in Asia 29. Circoviruses of crustaceans

RNA Viruses of Crustaceans 30. Totiviruses of crustaceans 31. Togaviruses of crustaceans 32. Roniviruses of crustaceans 33. Historic emergence, impact and current status of shrimp pathogens in the Americas 34. Nodaviruses of crustaceans 35. Bunyaviruses of crustaceans

DNA Viruses of Molluscs 36. Iridoviruses of molluscs 37. Malacoherpesviruses of molluscs 38. Papillomaviruses and polyomaviruses of molluscs

RNA Viruses of Molluscs 39. Picornaviruses of molluscs

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Understand aquatic viral diseases to improve aquaculture health and production for a safe food supply