Infectious diseases in oyster aquaculture require a new integrated approach

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Pernet, Fabrice, Lupo, Coralie, Bacher, Cédric, Whittington, Richard J.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Physiologie des Invertébrés (LPI), Physiologie Fonctionnelle des Organismes Marins (PFOM), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Laboratoire de Génétique et Pathologie des Mollusques Marins (LGPMM), Unité Santé, Génétique et Microbiologie des Mollusques (SGMM), Unité Dynamiques des Écosystèmes Côtiers (DYNECO), The University of Sydney, This work was supported by the French National Research Agency within the framework of the Gigassat project (ANR-12-AGRO-0001), the ‘Laboratoire d'Excellence’ LabexMER (ANR-10-LABX-19) and co-funded by a grant from the French Government under the programme ‘Investissements d'Avenir’ and by the Australian Government through the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation in project 2014-040, ANR-12-AGRO-0001,GIGASSAT,Adaptation des écosystèmes ostréicoles au changement global(2012), ANR-10-LABX-0019,LabexMER,LabexMER Marine Excellence Research: a changing ocean(2010)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: multidisciplinary; husbandry practices; horizontal transmission; ostreid herpesvirus-1 oshv-1; ACL; atlantic europe. part; bivalve; crassostrea-gigas spat; disease management; ecosystem-based management; epidemiology; Pacific oyster; pathogen transmission; risk; salmon-anemia; mu-var; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Crassostrea gigas
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01483233; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0213

International audience Emerging diseases pose a recurrent threat to bivalve aquaculture. Recently, massive mortality events in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas associated with the detection of a microvariant of the ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1 mu mVar) have been reported in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Although the spread of disease is often viewed as a governance failure, we suggest that the development of protective measures for bivalve farming is presently held back by the lack of key scientific knowledge. In this paper, we explore the case for an integrated approach to study the management of bivalve disease, using OsHV-1 as a case study. Reconsidering the key issues by incorporating multidisciplinary science could provide a holistic understanding of OsHV-1 and increase the benefit of research to policymakers.