Koi herpesvirus and carp edema virus threaten common carp aquaculture in Croatia

Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is a very important fish species for warm-water aquaculture in Croatia. All Croatian carp farms are subjected to a surveillance programme for the presence of koi herpesvirus (KHV), causing a deadly disease called koi herpesvirus disease (KHVD). However, there is no surveillance for other viral pathogens of importance like carp edema virus (CEV), a causative agent of koi sleepy disease (KSD). During regular testing within the KHVD surveillance programme, we tested samples for CEV simultaneously. The screening indicated possible outbreaks of KHVD and KSD. During 2016, KHVD broke out in an isolated area and soon thereafter a KHV eradication programme was successfully performed. However, during 2018 and 2019, two additional mortality events occurred in lakes in the southern part of Croatia during the spring. Samples from both events tested positive for CEV. An epidemiological investigation confirmed the introduction of infected carps from an infected farm to one of the lakes. To prevent the spreading of CEV into open waters, it is of utmost importance to introduce CEV testing before fish movement or to perform regular testing of all carp farms in the country to determine CEV prevalence for the purpose of implementation of control measures.     

Cloning, nucleotide sequence and phylogenetic analyses, and tissue-specific expression of the transferrin gene in Cirrhinus mrigala infected with Aeromonas hydrophila

Transferrin partial complementary DNAs were cloned from the livers of five species in four genera of Indian carps (Indian major carp species: Labeo rohita, Catla catla and Cirrhinus mrigala; medium carp: Puntius sarana; minor carp: Labeo bata) subsequent to polymerase chain reaction amplification with published heterologous primers or self-designed primers derived from conserved regions of transferrin cDNA sequences. The partial transferrin cDNAs of the five species of carps had sizes from 624 to 633 bp (487 bp for L. rohita) and encoded an open reading frame consisting of 206–211 (162 for L. rohita) amino acids. The alignments of carp cDNA sequences showed 85–97% homology and 71–93% homology in deduced amino acid sequences. A phylogenetic tree of amino acid sequences of transferrin cDNAs from carps showed that the relationship among the four genera of Indian carps is well correlated with that derived from classic morphologic analyses. The hypothesized cleavage site and interdomain bridge of transferrin molecule were predicted for the above carp species and interestingly the cleavage site amino acid sequence was found to be conserved among all the carps. To study the tissue-specific expression of the transferrin gene, various tissues (liver, kidney, spleen, brain, muscle, testis, heart, intestine, gill and fin) from apparently healthy (control), moribund and survived C. mrigala experimentally infected with Aeromonas hydrophila infection were analyzed. Transferrin mRNA was detected only in liver RNA and to lesser extent in brain tissue out of the 10 tissues analyzed irrespective of bacterial infection.     

Seasonal Differences in Growth Performance of Four Strains of Common Carp,Cyprinus carpio in India

To assess strain related differences in growth performance and growth patterns under the same culture environment, four strains of common carp, two each of the scale carp, Cyprinus carpio var. communis (Chinese big-belly carp and long bodied carp) and mirror carp, C. carpio var. specularis (scattered carp and linear carp) were communally stocked in three fertilized earthen ponds of 0.14 ha each at 5,000 fish ha^?1 in the ratio of 1:1:1:1 during an 11-month (February to December) culture cycle. Chinese big-belly carp grew larger than other groups, among which there were no significant differences. Scale carp strains performed relatively better than mirror carp at higher temperatures and then essentially stopped growing as temperatures declined into winter. The strains of mirror carp, on the other hand continued growing well later into the cold season.     

饲料脂肪水平对红白锦鲤体色、生长及部分生理生化指标的影响

本实验以初始体重为(5.85±0.19)g的红白锦鲤幼鱼为实验对象,研究在虾青素添加量为130 ms/kg时饲料脂肪水平(5.60%、7.93%、9.95%、11.93%、14.20%)对锦鲤体色、生长以及生理生化指标的影响.每组设3个平行,每个平行饲养10尾鱼,表观饱食投喂60d后,实验结果显示:脂肪水平为9.95%...     

染发废水对鲤鱼急性毒性试验研究

以鲤鱼为受试生物,将其暴露于不同浓度的染发废水中,通过半静止式试验,根据鲤鱼在各时间段的死亡率求出半致死浓度、安全浓度以及毒性累积程度系数等特征参数,探讨染发废水对鲤鱼的急性毒性,评价染发废水的毒性等级。结果表明:染发废水急性毒性等级为中等毒;染发废水在48 h内稳定性较差,48 h后才能趋于完全稳定;染发废水对鱼类急性毒性试验时间至少可缩短至48 h。     

我国鲫鲤杂交的研究进展及展望

对鲫鲤鱼杂交的发展历程、新技术在鲫鲤杂交育种上的应用以及杂交受精生物学与生殖理论方面的研究进展进行了归纳总结 ,并就鲫鲤杂交父母本的选择、杂交F1 代的繁育生理学进行了讨论 ,对鲫鲤杂交育种进行了展望。     

内蒙古达里诺尔湖经济鱼类生物学研究(一)

为了保护达里诺尔湖鲫鱼的种群,同时开发达里湖鲫鱼的优良特性,本文对达里湖鲫鱼进行了细致的生物学研究,得出:(1)达里湖鲫鱼是偏向植物性饵料的杂食性动物。(2)达里湖鲫鱼的肥满度变化规律是随年龄的增大,肥满度值处于一恒定状态。     

草鱼口服出血病疫苗的免疫途径及效果

用草鱼出血病病毒疫苗处理鱼苗开口饵料 ,以口服法接种草鱼苗 ,分别于第 76、119d后测定了不同浓度下免疫草鱼的血清抗体滴度。采用方法简单、成本低廉的琼脂扩散法 ,即可测出有效免疫浓度下的血清抗体滴度为 1:8～ 1:16,相应浓度下的免疫保护力为 80 %～ 10 0 %     

鲤鱼IL8的克隆及序列分析*

 利用DD-RTPCR（正常鲤鱼外周血白细胞和经有丝分裂源刺激后白细胞的总RNA）获得的差异显示片段B₁₀克隆（编码IL8的一段序列）,对该基因进行DIG标记,对有丝分裂原刺激的鲤鱼外周血白细胞cDNA文库进行核酸杂交筛选,从0.8×10⁴个重组噬菌体中,经过2轮筛选最终获得阳性克隆,挑选了3个分别命名为IL8-1,IL8-2,IL8-3。测序后经NCBI Blast分析表明,阳性克隆具有完整阅读框架,均为编码鲤鱼IL8的全长cDNA,编码的多肽由98个氨基酸残基组成,其相对分子质量理论推导值为 10 848.9 Da,等电点为8.68。且与2003年12月Dev Comp Immunol.杂志报道的荷兰鲤鱼氨基酸的同源性达84%。     

形态性状对鲤鱼家系F1代体重的影响

[目的]探讨鲤鱼家系F1代形态性状与体重的相关性.[方法]对鲤鱼家系F1代全长(X1)、体长(X2)、体高(X3)、体宽(X4)和体重(Y)进行测定,运用通径分析、相关分析及多元回归分析对其主要性状对体重的直接作用和间接作用进行评估,建立多元回归方程,定量分析鲤鱼家系F1代形态性状对体重的影响效果.[结果]鲤鱼家系F1代全长和体高与体重的相关系数均达到极显著水平(P＜0.01);全长对体重的直接效应最大,其通径系数为0.756,是影响体重的主要因素.体高对体重的影响主要是间接效应,其通径系数为0.201.保留的形态性状与体重的相关系数R2为0.891,说明所保留形态性状是影响体重的主要性状.采用逐步线性回归的方法,以体重为依变量(Y),以全长(X1)和体高(X3)为自变量,建立了多元回归方程:Y=-820.966+ 30.580X1+ 36.505X3.[结论]该研究结果可为杂交鲤鱼的选择育种提供科学依据,以全长作为首选指标能有效增加体重.