Aquaculture Virology

by Frederick S.B. Kibenge, Marcos G Godoy

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important global aquaculture industry, knowledge of viruses of animal aquaculture is still sparse and in some cases outdated although these viruses are closely related to well-known virus families.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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128015735
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/14/2016
Pages:	568
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

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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From the Publisher

This comprehensive book examines the main virus families and diseases relevant to aquaculture—including detailed discussions of specific diseases—in a systematic and succinct format