scholarly journals Estimates of genetic correlations between susceptibility of Atlantic salmon to amoebic gill disease in a bath challenge test and a field test

Aquaculture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 511 ◽  
pp. 734265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjarne Gjerde ◽  
Solomon Antwi Boison ◽  
Muhammed Luqman Aslam ◽  
Marie Løvoll ◽  
Håvard Bakke ◽  
...  
2006 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Morrison ◽  
Glenn A. Cooper ◽  
Ben F. Koop ◽  
Matthew L. Rise ◽  
Andrew R. Bridle ◽  
...  

Neoparamoeba spp. are amphizoic amoebae with the capacity to colonize the gills of some marine fish, causing AGD. Here, the gill tissue transcriptome response of Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.) to AGD is described. Tanks housing Atlantic salmon were inoculated with Neoparamoeba spp. and fish sampled at time points up to 8 days postinoculation (pi.). Gill tissues were taken from AGD-affected fish, and a DNA microarray was used to compare global gene expression against tissues from AGD-unaffected fish. A total of 206 genes, representing 190 unique transcripts, were reproducibly identified as up- or downregulated in response to Neoparamoeba spp. infection. Informative transcripts having GO biological process identifiers were grouped according to function. Although a number of genes were placed into each category, no distinct patterns were observed. One Atlantic salmon cDNA that was upregulated in infected gill relative to noninfected gill at 114 and 189 h pi. showed significant identity with the Xenopus, mouse, and human anterior gradient-2 (AG-2) homologs. Two Atlantic salmon AG-2 mRNA transcripts, designated asAG-2/1 and asAG-2/2, were cloned, sequenced, and shown to be predominantly expressed in the gill, intestine, and brain of a healthy fish. In AGD-affected fish, differential asAG-2 expression was confirmed in samples used for microarray analyses as well as in AGD-affected gill tissue taken from fish in an independent experiment. The asAG-2 upregulation was restricted to AGD lesions relative to unaffected tissue from the same gill arch, while p53 tumor suppressor protein mRNA was concurrently downregulated in AGD lesions. Differential expression of p53-regulated transcripts, proliferating cell nuclear antigen and growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible gene-45β (GADD45β) in AGD lesions, suggests a role for p53 in AGD pathogenesis. Thus AGD may represent a novel model for comparative analysis of p53 and p53-regulated pathways.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. e0175468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey J. Moore ◽  
Tom Ole Nilsen ◽  
Jiraporn Jarungsriapisit ◽  
Per Gunnar Fjelldal ◽  
Sigurd O. Stefansson ◽  
...  

Pathogens ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 597
Author(s):  
Tina Oldham ◽  
Tim Dempster ◽  
Philip Crosbie ◽  
Mark Adams ◽  
Barbara Nowak

Amoebic gill disease (AGD), caused by the amoeba Neoparamoeba perurans, has led to considerable economic losses in every major Atlantic salmon producing country, and is increasing in frequency. The most serious infections occur during summer and autumn, when temperatures are high and poor dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions are most common. Here, we tested if exposure to cyclic hypoxia at DO saturations of 40–60% altered the course of infection with N. perurans compared to normoxic controls maintained at ≥90% DO saturation. Although hypoxia exposure did not increase initial susceptibility to N. perurans, it accelerated progression of the disease. By 7 days post-inoculation, amoeba counts estimated from qPCR analysis were 1.7 times higher in the hypoxic treatment than in normoxic controls, and cumulative mortalities were twice as high (16 ± 4% and 8 ± 2%), respectively. At 10 days post-inoculation, however, there were no differences between amoeba counts in the hypoxic and normoxic treatments, nor in the percentage of filaments with AGD lesions (control = 74 ± 2.8%, hypoxic = 69 ± 3.3%), or number of lamellae per lesion (control = 30 ± 0.9%, hypoxic = 27.9 ± 0.9%) as determined by histological examination. Cumulative mortalities at the termination of the experiment were similarly high in both treatments (hypoxic = 60 ± 2%, normoxic = 53 ± 11%). These results reveal that exposure to cyclic hypoxia in a diel pattern, equivalent to what salmon are exposed to in marine aquaculture cages, accelerated the progression of AGD in post-smolts.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1195-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Robledo ◽  
Oswald Matika ◽  
Alastair Hamilton ◽  
Ross D. Houston

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1217-1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
J K Downes ◽  
T Yatabe ◽  
M Marcos-Lopez ◽  
H D Rodger ◽  
E MacCarthy ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Richard S. Taylor ◽  
Joel Slinger ◽  
Paula Camargo Lima ◽  
Chloe J. English ◽  
Ben T. Maynard ◽  
...  

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