FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Whole‐genome sequencing identifies interferon-induced protein IFI6/IFI27-like as a strong candidate gene for VNN resistance in European sea bass BT AF Delpuech, Emilie Vandeputte, Marc Morvezen, Romain Bestin, Anastasia Besson, Mathieu Brunier, Joseph Bajek, Aline Imarazene, Boudjema François, Yoannah Bouchez, Olivier Cousin, Xavier Poncet, Charles Morin, Thierry Bruant, Jean-Sébastien Chatain, Beatrice Haffray, Pierrick Phocas, Florence Allal, Francois AS 1:2,9;2:2,9;3:3;4:3;5:3;6:4;7:4;8:5;9:3,6;10:7;11:2,9;12:8;13:6;14:5;15:1;16:3;17:2;18:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS;16:;17:;18:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS; C1 MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, INRAE, 34250, Palavas-Les-Flots, France Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France SYSAAF, Station LPGP/INRAE, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes, France Ecloserie Marine de Gravelines-Ichtus, Gloria Maris Group, 59273, Gravelines, France Fermes Marines Du Soleil, 17840, La Brée Les Bains, France ANSES, Unit Virology, Immunology and Ecotoxicology of Fish, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, 29280, Plouzané, France US 1426, GeT-PlaGe, INRAE, Genotoul, Castanet-Tolosan, France INRAE-UCA, UMR 1095 GDEC, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, INRAE, 34250, Palavas-Les-Flots, France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE SYSAAF, FRANCE ECLOSERIE MARINE GRAVELINES ICHTUS, FRANCE FERMES MARINES SOLEIL, FRANCE ANSES, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE INRAE, FRANCE SI PALAVAS SE PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LAAAS UM MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-p187 IF 4.1 TC 1 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00835/94739/102213.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00835/94739/102214.docx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00835/94739/102215.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00835/94739/102216.docx LA English DT Article AB Background Viral nervous necrosis (VNN) is a major disease that affects European sea bass, and understanding the biological mechanisms that underlie VNN resistance is important for the welfare of farmed fish and sustainability of production systems. The aim of this study was to identify genomic regions and genes that are associated with VNN resistance in sea bass. Results We generated a dataset of 838,451 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified from whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in the parental generation of two commercial populations (A: 2371 individuals and B: 3428 individuals) of European sea bass with phenotypic records for binary survival in a VNN challenge. For each population, three cohorts were submitted to a red-spotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV) challenge by immersion and genotyped on a 57K SNP chip. After imputation of WGS SNPs from their parents, quantitative trait loci (QTL) were mapped using a Bayesian sparse linear mixed model (BSLMM). We found several QTL regions that were specific to one of the populations on different linkage groups (LG), and one 127-kb QTL region on LG12 that was shared by both populations and included the genes ZDHHC14, which encodes a palmitoyltransferase, and IFI6/IFI27-like, which encodes an interferon-alpha induced protein. The most significant SNP in this QTL region was only 1.9 kb downstream of the coding sequence of the IFI6/IFI27-like gene. An unrelated population of four large families was used to validate the effect of the QTL. Survival rates of susceptible genotypes were 40.6% and 45.4% in populations A and B, respectively, while that of the resistant genotype was 66.2% in population B and 78% in population A. Conclusions We have identified a genomic region that carries a major QTL for resistance to VNN and includes the ZDHHC14 and IFI6/IFI27-like genes. The potential involvement of the interferon pathway, a well-known anti-viral defense mechanism in several organisms (chicken, human, or fish), in survival to VNN infection is of particular interest. Our results can lead to major improvements for sea bass breeding programs through marker-assisted genomic selection to obtain more resistant fish. PY 2023 PD MAY SO Genetics Selection Evolution SN 0999-193X PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 55 IS 1 UT 000981572100001 DI 10.1186/s12711-023-00805-2 ID 94739 ER EF