FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Different survival of three populations of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) following challenge with two variants of nervous necrosis virus (NNV) BT AF Barsøe, Sofie Allal, Francois Vergnet, Alain Vandeputte, Marc Olesen, Niels Jørgen Schmidt, Jacob Günther Larsen, Cathrine Agnete Cuenca, Argelia Vendramin, Niccolò AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:3,4;5:1;6:1;7:1;8:1;9:1; FF 1:;2:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS;3:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LSEA;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Technical University of Denmark, Institute for Aquatic Resources, Unit for Fish and Shellfish Diseases, Kemitorvet, Building 202, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark MARBEC, Université Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Route de Maguelone, 34250 Palavas-les-Flots, France Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, Domaine de Vilvert, FR78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France MARBEC, Université Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Route de Maguelone, 34250 Palavas-les-Flots, France C2 UNIV TECH DENMARK, DENMARK IFREMER, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE SI PALAVAS SE PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LSEA UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-p187 copubli-europe IF 3.385 TC 7 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79050/81498.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79050/81508.docx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79050/81509.docx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79050/81510.docx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00678/79050/81511.mp4 LA English DT Article DE ;Nervous necrosis virus;Betanodavirus;Viral enchephalo-and retinopathy;Genetic resistance;Host-pathogen interaction;Sea bass;Neurological infection AB Viral Nervous Necrosis (VNN, also called viral encephalo- and retinopathy (VER)), is a widespread disease of marine aquaculture caused by betanodavirus (or nervous necrosis virus - NNV), a segmented positive sense RNA virus, member of the nodaviridae family. VNN affects predominantly marine fish and cause significant losses to the Mediterranean fish farming industry, including the production of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Of the four circulating genotypes of betanodavirus, red-spotted grouper NNV (RGNNV) and the reassortant genotype red-spotted grouper/striped jack NNV (RG/SJNNV) are most prevalent in the Mediterranean. Inheritable resistance against VNN has been detected in sea bass, and selective breeding could be a mean to limit this untreatable disease. In the current study, we compare resistance to disease among three populations from the Atlantic Ocean (AT), Eastern Mediterranean (EM) and Western Mediterranean (WM), by challenge trials using both a highly pathogenic isolate of RGNNV and a lower pathogenic reassortant isolate of RG/SJNNV. The survival of the three populations were modelled with a logistic regression, and the odds ratio (OR) of surviving was calculated. The challenge with RG/SJNNV reduced the odds of surviving three-fold (OR = 0.29 [0.07-0.87]), whereas the challenge with RGNNV reduced the odds of surviving 100-fold (OR = 0.01 [0.00-0.03]). Overall, the EM population had 3.32 (1.92–5.86) times higher odds of surviving the challenge than the AT and WM stocks. All survivors were harboring viral RNA in the brain, as demonstrated by RT-qPCR. However, viral RNA levels were in average lower in survivors from the EM population in both challenges, though only significantly lower in the challenge with RG/SJNNV (p < 0.01). The survival results combined with the RT-qPCR results indicate that the EM sea bass population has a natural resistance to disease caused by RGNNV, possibly associated with limited viral entry into and/or replication in the brain. PY 2021 PD MAR SO Aquaculture Reports SN 2352-5134 PU Elsevier BV VL 19 UT 000625315000007 DI 10.1016/j.aqrep.2021.100621 ID 79050 ER EF