IMMUNAQUA: Anti-infectious immune effectors in marine invertebrates: characterisation and application for diesease control in aquaculture

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 02.0360

Key words (English)

Coordination; Cooperation; Economic Aspects; Scientific Research

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: ICA4-CT-2001-10023

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 2.3 Developing countries

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

As world aquaculture is facing economical losses due to infectious diseases, the project objectives are to provide new therapeutic agents and new approach for the control of diseases in mollusc and shrimp production. The approach deals with the isolation and the characterisation of antimicrobial molecules, irnmune non-specific effectors produced naturally by these invertebrates and to investigate their antimicrobial properties against a wide range of pathogens. The selected antimicrobial effectors will be then monitored on larvae for their potential beneficial and/or protective effect against infections. Moreover, the expression of antimicrobial effectors encoding genes will be analysed at population level for evaluation of their use as genetics markers for increased non-specific response to diseases. Candidate molecules and genes, as well as new selection approach, will be supplied for further exploitation in aquaculture.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
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CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 02.0360