Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food-producing sectors around the world. Among
various kinds of cultivated organisms many marine and freshwater finfish and shellfish …

All metazoans possess innate immune defence system whereas parameters of the adaptive
immune system make their first appearance in the gnathostomata, the jawed vertebrates …

The study of the genetic regulation of infectious disease resistance depends on the
availability of inbred lines or selection lines of the species under investigation. The small …

On examine l'écologie des maladies infectieuses chez les populations sauvages et issues
du repeuplement. Peu de pathogènes ont causé d'importantes épizooties dans le milieu …

Fish skin and its mucus provide the first line of defense against chemical, physical and
biological stressors, but little is known about the role of skin and its mucus in immune …

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a large genomic region characterized by
extremely high polymorphism, and it plays an important role in the immune response of …

Suppression subtractive hybridisation (SSH) is a powerful means to identify genes of
cytokines and other genes that express small amount of mRNA. In this study, cDNA of …

Specific immune responses that are independent of antibody are collectively termed cell-
mediated immunity. The term originates from the ability to transfer the antigen-specific …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide readers with a general overview of the fish immune
system, including commonalities and particularities in comparison with higher vertebrate …

Sequence-based ty** of a breeding population (G1) consisting of 84 Atlantic salmon
individuals revealed the presence of 7 Sasa-DAA and 7 Sasa-DAB expressed alleles …