Seahorse TLR5 gene responses to Vibrio vulnificus infection, which in combination with scuticociliates causes heavy reductions in seahorse aquaculture.
Seahorse TLR5 gene responses to Vibrio vulnificus infection, which in combination with scuticociliates causes heavy reductions in seahorse aquaculture.
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DOI:
10.1111/jfd.12893
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发表时间:
2018-09
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
G. Qin;Y. Zhang;Bo Zhang;Xin Wang;Jianping Yin;Q. Lin
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作者:
G. Qin;Y. Zhang;Bo Zhang;Xin Wang;Jianping Yin;Q. Lin
Seahorses are popular throughout the world because of their unique body shape and male pregnancy strategy (Lin, Fan et al., 2016), and they are also regarded as the most important traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in certain Asian countries (Chen, Wang, & Huang, 2015; Koldewey & Martin‐Smith, 2010). However, due to habitat destruction and heavy trade, wild seahorse populations have greatly declined in recent decades (Lourie, Pollom, & Foster, 2016). Seahorse aquaculture has become an important and potential candidate for addressing the high market demand (Qin, Wang, Tan, & Lin, 2017). However, widespread diseases are considered an important bottleneck for seahorse culturing and represent a serious challenge for scientific research in recent years (Declercq et al., 2014; Wang, Zhang, Qin, Luo, & Lin, 2016).The lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) has been the most popular cultured species in China over the past 10 years (Lin et al., 2012); however, these animals have been impacted by frequent disease events (Lin, Zhang, Liu, & Xiao, 2016; Qin et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2016). We first distinguished scuticociliate‐infected seahorses in 2012. Similar diseases were found at more than five farms, and these events led to the death of more than 100,000 seahorses and 20%–80% mortality of the cultured seahorses each farm (Figure 1a). However, the strategies used against scuticociliates were not particularly effective in these cases. Fish are commonly infected by two or more pathogens, and co‐infections contribute to the severity of certain infectious diseases (Xu, Shoemaker, & Lafrentz, 2014). For