Assessing the role of Piscine orthoreovirus in disease and the associated risk for wild Pacific salmon

Gideon Mordecai; Arthur L Bass; Rick Routledge; Emiliano Di Cicco; Amy Teffer; Christoph Deeg; Andrew W Bateman; Kristina M Miller

doi:10.1186/s12915-023-01548-8

Assessing the role of Piscine orthoreovirus in disease and the associated risk for wild Pacific salmon

BMC Biol. 2023 May 19;21(1):114. doi: 10.1186/s12915-023-01548-8.

Authors

Gideon Mordecai¹, Arthur L Bass^{2

3}, Rick Routledge⁴, Emiliano Di Cicco⁵, Amy Teffer⁶, Christoph Deeg^{5

7}, Andrew W Bateman^{5

8}, Kristina M Miller^{3

7}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. gidmord@gmail.com.
² Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³ Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, BC, Canada.
⁴ Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
⁵ Pacific Salmon Foundation, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁶ Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
⁷ Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁸ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Abstract

This paper is a response to Polinski, M. P. et al. Innate antiviral defense demonstrates high energetic efficiency in a bony fish. BMC Biology 19, 138 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01069-2.

Keywords: Comparitive pathology; Disease ecology; Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV); Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV); Respiratory performance; Salmon.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Fish Diseases*
Orthoreovirus* / physiology
Reoviridae Infections* / veterinary
Salmon

Supplementary concepts

Piscine orthoreovirus