Diffuse melanization of the red skeletal musculature in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)

J Fish Dis. 2023 Apr;46(4):453-458. doi: 10.1111/jfd.13729. Epub 2022 Nov 9.

Authors

Malin Brimsholm¹, Line Rønning², Espen Rimstad³, Erling Olaf Koppang¹, Håvard Bjørgen¹

Affiliations

¹ Unit of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
² Lerøy Seafood Group ASA, Bergen, Norway.
³ Unit of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.

PMID: 36353756
DOI: 10.1111/jfd.13729

No abstract available

Keywords: filet; melanin; melano-macrophage; piscine myocarditis virus; piscine orthoreovirus 1; salmonid alphavirus.

MeSH terms

Animals
Fish Diseases* / pathology
Muscle, Skeletal / pathology
Salmo salar*

Grants and funding

901501/Fiskeri - og havbruksnaeringens forskningsfond