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), 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 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), Santé, Génétique et Microbiologie des Mollusques (IFREMER SG2M), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - Atlantique (IFREMER Atlantique), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Dynamiques de l'Environnement Côtier (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: epidemiology; horizontal transmission; husbandry practices; multidisciplinary; Pacific oyster; pathogen transmission; risk; salmon-anemia; mu-var; bivalve; crassostrea-gigas spat; disease management; ecosystem-based management; ostreid herpesvirus-1 oshv-1; ACL; atlantic europe. part; envir; scipo; New Zealand; Pacific; Crassostrea gigas
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0213; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01483233

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.