White Spot Disease (WSD) is a viral disease affecting crustaceans. Caused by the Syndrome Virus (WSSV), this has caused significant mortality in commercially cultivated marine shrimp species with severe impacts on farming industry and may be threat to wild stocks. Thorough studies molecular biology of pathogen are urgently needed improve understanding virus at level, including variation key pro...

The objective of this survey was to provide a software ecological model to predict the incidence of WSSV in Litopenaeus vannamei ponds of Gwater area located in southeastern of Iran. The coding and grouping of effective factors, which were involved in the occurrence of White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) including temperature, salinity, oxygen, pH, ammonia, silica, pond preparation and management ...

Phagocytosis is crucial for triggering host defenses against invading pathogens in animals. However, the receptors on phagocyte surface required for phagocytosis of virus have not been extensively explored. This study demonstrated that white spot syndrome virus (WSSV), a major pathogen of shrimp, could be engulfed but not digested by Drosophila S2 cells, indicating that the virus was not recogn...

The Vembanad Lake located on the south-west coast of India, an ecological hotspot is the nursing ground of many economically important crustaceans. The prevalence of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) among crustaceans from farmed, estuarine and marine environments surrounding the Vembanad Lake, India was detected using PCR. A total of 308 samples from aquaculture ponds consisting of six species ...

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is a major pathogen of penaeid shrimp. Here we identified a new WSSV strain, WSSV-CN04, from naturally infected Marsupenaeus japonicus. Whole genomic sequencing results indicate that the WSSV-CN04 genome was 281 054 bp in length, and encoded 157 hypothetic proteins. The genome sequence of WSSV-CN04 was most closely related to the low-virulent strain WSSV-CN03, s...

A portion of the VP28 gene (VP28F118) of white spot syndrome virus was cloned into an expression vector and transformed into E. coli. The objective was to produce a truncated VP28 envelope protein lacking the N-terminal transmembrane region. After induction, the recombinant VP28F118 protein (rVP28F118) was produced, purified by SDS-PAGE and used to immunize Swiss mice for monoclonal antibody pr...

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV), a large enveloped DNA virus, can cause the most serious viral disease in shrimp and has a wide host range among crustaceans. In this study, we identified a surface protein, named glucose transporter 1 (Glut1), which could also interact with WSSV envelope protein, VP53A. Sequence analysis revealed that Glut1 is a member of a large superfamily of transporters and...

This research study tested the protective effect of prolonged exposure shrimp food supplemented with glucans from shrimp-pond related yeasts on Penaeus vannamei reared under presence white spot syndrome virus (WSSV). The extracted and purified isolated marine identified as Debaryomyces hansenii, Candida tropicalis, humilis, glabrata, Pichia kudriavzevyi, Wickerhamomyces anomalus terrestrial Sac...

Three different experiments were conducted to study the effect of dietary astaxanthin on the immune response, resistance to white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) and transcription of antioxidant enzyme genes in Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. Each experiment included one triplicate treatment group (fed with 80 mg/kg astaxanthin supplemented diet) and one triplicate control group (fed with...