Vaccination or selective breeding against disease?

A doctoral thesis at Nofima shows that vaccinating against some diseases can hide the beneficial effects of selective breeding program against the same disease. In the modern aquaculture industry both vaccinations and selective breeding are use to combat disease in salmon farming. Research Fellow Tale Marie Karlsson Drangsholt has studied genetic variation in resistance against the disease furunculosis in vaccinated and unvaccinated Atlantic salmon. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers