Infections of common carp Cyprinus carpio and koi, its coloured morphotypes, with the cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3) can induce severe clinical signs and increased mortality in affected stocks. This may significantly challenge the economic basis of carp farming in Central Europe. To limit virus spread in carp farms, effective disinfection measures for ponds stocked with infected populations ar...

a research project was designed to compare the level of accumulated mercury in common and silver carp muscle tissues from sanandaj gheshlagh dam. these fish were the most consumed fish in the region. during july to december 2009, forty eight samples of these species were randomly caught (24 samples each). total mercury in muscle tissues was measured by advanced mercury analyzer (model, leco 254...

apolipoprotein a-i is the most abundant protein in cyprinus carpio plasma that plays an important role in lipid transport and protection of the skin by means of its antimicrobial activity. a 527 bp cdna fragment encoding c terminus part of apoa-i from the skin mucosa of common carp was isolated using rt-pcr. after genbank database searching, a partial sequence containing a coding sequence (cds)...

Caspase-3, the essential effector caspase, plays a pivotal role during caspase-dependent apoptosis. In this study, we isolated and characterized caspase-3A gene from common carp. The common carp caspase-3A comprising 273 amino acids showed 71.8% sequence similarity and 59.3% sequence identity to human caspase-3. It exhibited an evolutionarily conserved structure of mammalian caspase-3 genes, in...

The production of two heterozygous and one homozygous clones of the Israeli Dor-70 line of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) was tested using DNA fingerprinting (DFP) and mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR) analysis. The clones were obtained in large-scale production from mitotic gynogenetic females and males (sex-inversed). MLR analysis was used to examine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) anti...

—The silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix has spread throughout the Mississippi River drainage. During 2003, we determined its population status and potential impact in the middle Mississippi River (MMR), the conduit between the lower Mississippi River and the upper Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers. We quantified growth, age structure, fecundity, and diets of silver carp sampled wi...

Koi herpesvirus disease (KHVD) is a highly contagious viral illness causing significant morbidity and mortality in common carp (Cyprinus carpio). KHVD has been confirmed in almost all countries around the world except Australia. KHV has been previously detected in the Czech Republic based on PCR screening but with no clinical signs of KHVD. An outbreak of KHVD with clinical signs, and severe mo...