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JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2022.107864
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Snow crab Chionoecetes bairdi; Pacific coast of Kamchatka; Milky hemolymph syndrome; Bacilliform virus; Histopathology; Ultrastructure; Genetic analysis
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Milky hemolymph syndrome (MHS) caused by a bacilliform virus (BV) was found in tanner crab Chionoecetes bairdi in Kamchatka. The disease leads to hypertrophy of cells and the presence of two types of virus particles. It is structurally similar to CoBV found in Chionoecetes opilio.
Milky hemolymph syndrome (MHS) caused by a bacilliform virus (BV) was found in tanner crab Chionoecetes bairdi in the shelf zone of Kamchatka. The prevalence of the disease varied from 0.18 to 1.02%. A total lesion of the cells of the interstitial connective tissue and the connective tissue component of all internal organs was noted, which was expressed in the hypertrophy of their nuclei. In addition, hypertrophy of fixed phagocytes and circulating hemocytes was noted. Ultrastructural analysis of the tissues confirmed that in the interstitial connective tissue of pathologically altered organs, virus particles of two morphotypes were found - rod-shaped and globular. In the cytoplasm of infected cells, bands of microtubules formed near where viral particles were concentrated. In the area of contacts at the poles of microtubules, successive stages of the transformation of rodshaped viruses into globular viruses was observed. The bacilliform virus that infects C. bairdi is structurally very similar to CoBV found in Chionoecetes opilio. Structural features are characteristic of representatives of fam. Nimaviridae. The molecular data obtained suggest that the virus causing MHS in C. bairdi is systematically very close, if not identical, to CoBV.
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