TY - JOUR T1 - Shellfish viruses A1 - Renault,Tristan UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/4932/ KW - Virus KW - Scallops KW - Picornavirus KW - Oyter herpesvirus 1 KW - Oysters KW - Molluscs KW - Irido Like virus KW - Diseases KW - Herpesvirus KW - Clams KW - Bivalves KW - Birnavirus KW - Abalones N2 - Mortalities in a number of commercially important mollusc species have been associated with the detection of viruses belonging to several families. The first description of a virus was in adult eastern oyters, Crassostrea virginica, with the detection of virus particles resembling members of the family Herpesviridae. Subsequently, mass mortalities in French stocks of adult Portuguese oysters, C. angulata, were associated with irido-like virus infection. Other viruses observed in molluscs are described as members of the families Iridoviridae, Papovaviridae and Reoviridae. Little information is available on viral infections that affect molluscs due to primarily to the inadequacy of diagnostic methods that are employed when mass mortality events occur. Most laboratories involved in mollusc pathology still employ histopathology for the analysis of samples. Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) is the only well characterised shellfish pathogen with complete genome sequence now available. Y1 - 2008/10 PB - Elsevier JF - In : Encyclopedia of Virology (B.W.J. Mahy and M. H. V. Van Regenmortel, Editors), Oxford VL - 5 SP - 560 EP - 567 ID - 4932 ER -