What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture?
Infectious diseases place an economic burden on aquaculture and a limitation to its growth. An innovative approach to mitigate their impact on production is breeding for disease resistance: selection for domestication, family-based selection, marker-assisted selection, and more recently, genomic sel...
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| author | Simona Sciuto Licia Colli Andrea Fabris Paolo Pastorino Nadia Stoppani Giovanna Esposito Marino Prearo Giuseppe Esposito Paolo Ajmone-Marsan Pier Luigi Acutis Silvia Colussi |
| author_facet | Simona Sciuto Licia Colli Andrea Fabris Paolo Pastorino Nadia Stoppani Giovanna Esposito Marino Prearo Giuseppe Esposito Paolo Ajmone-Marsan Pier Luigi Acutis Silvia Colussi |
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| description | Infectious diseases place an economic burden on aquaculture and a limitation to its growth. An innovative approach to mitigate their impact on production is breeding for disease resistance: selection for domestication, family-based selection, marker-assisted selection, and more recently, genomic selection. Advances in genetics and genomics approaches to the control of infectious diseases are key to increasing aquaculture efficiency, profitability, and sustainability and to reducing its environmental footprint. Interaction and co-evolution between a host and pathogen can, however, turn breeding to boost infectious disease resistance into a potential driver of pathogenic change. Parallel molecular characterization of the pathogen and its virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes is therefore essential to understand pathogen evolution over time in response to host immunity, and to apply appropriate mitigation strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9cc97a75c25948fb8ae5e7e05438ecd22023-11-23T12:36:28ZengMDPI AGAnimals2076-26152022-08-011217217610.3390/ani12172176What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture?Simona Sciuto0Licia Colli1Andrea Fabris2Paolo Pastorino3Nadia Stoppani4Giovanna Esposito5Marino Prearo6Giuseppe Esposito7Paolo Ajmone-Marsan8Pier Luigi Acutis9Silvia Colussi10Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyDepartment of Animal Science, Food, Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Emilia Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, ItalyAssociazione Piscicoltori Italiani (API), Via del Perlar 37/A, 37135 Verona, ItalyIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyDepartment of Animal Science, Food, Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Emilia Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, ItalyIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyIstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Via Bologna 148, 10154 Torino, ItalyInfectious diseases place an economic burden on aquaculture and a limitation to its growth. An innovative approach to mitigate their impact on production is breeding for disease resistance: selection for domestication, family-based selection, marker-assisted selection, and more recently, genomic selection. Advances in genetics and genomics approaches to the control of infectious diseases are key to increasing aquaculture efficiency, profitability, and sustainability and to reducing its environmental footprint. Interaction and co-evolution between a host and pathogen can, however, turn breeding to boost infectious disease resistance into a potential driver of pathogenic change. Parallel molecular characterization of the pathogen and its virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes is therefore essential to understand pathogen evolution over time in response to host immunity, and to apply appropriate mitigation strategies.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/17/2176aquacultureinfectious diseasepathogen evolutionselective breeding |
| spellingShingle | Simona Sciuto Licia Colli Andrea Fabris Paolo Pastorino Nadia Stoppani Giovanna Esposito Marino Prearo Giuseppe Esposito Paolo Ajmone-Marsan Pier Luigi Acutis Silvia Colussi What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture? Animals aquaculture infectious disease pathogen evolution selective breeding |
| title | What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture? |
| title_full | What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture? |
| title_fullStr | What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture? |
| title_full_unstemmed | What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture? |
| title_short | What Can Genetics Do for the Control of Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture? |
| title_sort | what can genetics do for the control of infectious diseases in aquaculture |
| topic | aquaculture infectious disease pathogen evolution selective breeding |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/17/2176 |
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