Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) continues to have a significant economic impact upon production of sea-farmed Atlantic salmon in Tasmania. Reducing mortality is economically important for the fish farmer and is equally important from an animal welfare perspective. The process of freshwater bathing invariably involves a level of fish mortality. Although the main determining factor of handling loss is the proportion of high gill score fish in the population, there is evidence of resilience and susceptibility to handling events that may be independent of the level of gill pathology. Fish farmers are constantly refining techniques to minimise handling losses, but there is also a need to ensure that that animal welfare and sustainability can be incorporated in the breeding goal allowing production of robust animals through selective breeding.
The potential benefits of improved AGD resilience could be gauged on a number of levels. Disease resilience and decreased handling may potentially be worth $1.47 m to the industry.

Project Objectives

1. Determine the level of genetic variation within the Saltas selective breeding program population associated with AGD handling resilience, and the opportunity and risk for selection for this trait
2. Establish the level of genetic variation in the Saltas SBP population associated with cardiovascular traits and the opportunity and risk for selection of these traits
3. Establish the level of genetic correlation between cardiovascular and AGD resilience traits
4. Examine cost-effective and non-destructive resilience selection traits that can be applied to freshwater broodstock within the Saltas SBP

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

Economic losses due to diseases mostly caused by viruses remain a major obstacle to realizing the production potential of prawn aquaculture industries in many parts of the world. Broodstock used in prawn hatcheries in Australia are generally managed quite intensively and numbers used are generally low. Opportunities thus exist to inject broodstock with virus-specific dsRNAs to induce RNAi responses that reduce viral infection loads prior to them being mated and/or spawned to generate seedstock.

In Australia, disease caused by Gill-Associated Virus (GAV) infection results in the most substantial economic impacts to Banana Prawn farmers. Hepatopancreatic-parvovirus (HPV) or more recently named Penaeus merguiensis densovirus (PmergDNV) are the most problematic virus. This project aimed to optimise RNAi methods for clearing or reducing GAV infection loads in P. monodon broodstock and to produce RNAi reagents targeted to PmergDNV.

Juvenile P. monodon with subclinical GAV infections were collected from a farm in North Queensland and injected with different dsRNAs and infection loads in individuals were tracked. Reproductive assessment of egg and nauplii numbers and hatch rates showed that spawning performance of the females was not impaired by dsRNA injection.

This study demonstrated that the targeted injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs or a single dsRNA can reduce pre-existing infection loads in juvenile P. monodon. Similarly, the injection of a cocktail of 5 GAV dsRNAs in broodstock prawns appeared to reduce pre-existing infection loads without any adverse impacts on the ability of females to produce viable nauplii. This experiment provided the first evidence that an RNAi approach applied in hatcheries might be able to contribute to mitigation viral disease impacts in prawn aquaculture that are vertically transmitted to improve farm productivity.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.

The project examined the genetic basis of antiviral resistance in oysters and abalone in response to the significant disease threats posed by oyster and abalone herpesviruses. Laboratory-based systems for the growth and assay of such viruses are problematic. The project undertook to measure the antiviral activity of different breeding lines of oysters and abalone using as a proxy measure the antiviral activity against the human herpesvirus HSV-1. We demonstrated that oysters and abalone have antiviral activity against HSV-1, and that this trait is heritable. We identified a hemolymph compound providing antiviral activity. Our analysis of the oyster genome identified what is likely to be a key role for the protein viperin in resistance to viral infection. The project has provided outstanding value in three important areas. First, in adding to the knowledge base directing mollusc breeding programs. Second, in enhancing knowledge of molluscan immunity to viral infections. Third, in building research and development capacity in the Australian seafood industry.