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Aquaculture Virology

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… Read more

Description

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important global aquaculture industry, knowledge of viruses of animal aquaculture is still sparse and in some cases outdated although these viruses are closely related to well-known virus families.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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Aquaculture Practitioners in the prevention and control of viral aquaculture diseases. Aquaculture industry researchers and scientists and associated industries (pharma, health/nutrition etc), Students across disciplines in aquaculture, comparative virology, biology, veterinary sciences, biotechnology, animal science & marine biology

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

Appendix

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About the editors

FK

Frederick S.B. Kibenge

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Virology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada

MG

Marcos G Godoy

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
Affiliations and expertise
Veterinarian, Marine Biologist, Universidad San Sebastian, Medicina Veterinaria, Puerto Montt, Chile; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Aplicadas (CIBA), Puerto Montt, Chile

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