http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1995 Electronic copies of Aquaculture book chapters and sections. 2026-10-03T07:07:06Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37527 Title: The Global Approach: Aquaculture and National Action Plans for Antimicrobial Resistance Author(s): Desbois, Andrew; Green, Darren Editor(s): Elumalai, Preetham; Lakshmi, Sreeja Abstract: National Action Plans (NAPs) for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) underpin the coordinated international response to the global problem of AMR, which includes bacterial antibiotic resistance. Nations prepare their NAPs often under the guidance of the Quadripartite, comprised of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH). NAPs are drafted following the guiding principles of the Global Action Plan (GAP) on AMR that was developed and proposed by the WHO, FAO and WOAH in 2015. Each NAP is prepared to account for the individual needs of the nation, including the scale of the problem, the resources available, cultural considerations and logistical concerns, and they aim to reflect the state of each country’s experience with and progress against AMR. NAPs should take a One Health approach to the AMR issue, which is in recognition of the impact of AMR on humans, animals and the environment; aquaculture often finds itself at the nexus of these One Health compartments. This chapter describes what NAPs are and how they help to mitigate AMR and seeks to raise awareness around how they pertain to the aquaculture sector. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34884 Title: Evolution of sea louse (Copepoda: Caligidae) resistance against control agents Author(s): Sturm, Armin; Tschesche, Claudia; Bron, James Editor(s): Treasurer, Jim; Bricknell, Ian; Bron, James 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/33204 Title: Impacts of climate change on aquaculture Author(s): Collins, Catherine; Bresnan, Eileen; Brown, Lyndsay; Falconer, Lynne; Guilder, James; Jones, Laurence; Kennerley, Adam; Malham, Shelagh; Murray, Alexander; Stanley, Michele Abstract: Aquaculture is a significant industry in UK coastal waters, with annual turnover valued at more than £1.8bn. It particularly important in western and northern Scotland. • Aquaculture is sensitive to the marine environment and changes therein. • The dominant contribution of a single species (Atlantic salmon) to production tonnage and value potentially increases vulnerability to climate change. • Temperature increase is expected to increase growth rates for most species farmed. • Increased problems associated with some diseases and parasites, notably sea lice and gill disease (which has emerged as a serious problem), are likely to increase in the short term and to get worse in the longer term. Impacts may be synergistic. • Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and jellyfish swarms/invasions may also get worse, however complex ecosystem interactions make responses uncertain. • The situation for shellfish is similar to finfish, although they are additionally at risk of accumulation of toxins from HABs, and recruitment failure, and, in the longer term, to sea-level rises and ocean acidification. • Technical and management changes in the rapidly evolving aquaculture industry make long-term impacts of climate change difficult to forecast. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/31109 Title: Development and Validation of Real-Time RT-LAMP Assays for the Specific Detection of Zika Virus Author(s): Lopez-Jimena, Benjamin; Bakheit, Mohammed; Bekaert, Michaël; Harold, Graham; Frischmann, Sieghard; Fall, Cheikh; Diagne, Cheikh Tidiane; Faye, Oumar; Faye, Ousmane; Sall, Amadou Alpha; Weidmann, Manfred Editor(s): Kobinger, Gary; Racine, Trina Abstract: Two one-step real-time reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assays for the detection of Zika virus (ZIKV) were developed, based on two different primer design approaches: (1) open source, based on a combination of sequence diversity clustering (phylogeny and principal component analysis) and LAVA algorithm, using 45 whole genome ZIKV sequences retrieved from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database; (2) standard software for LAMP primer design (Primer Explorer V4), using 59 sequences of the ZIKV 3′ UTR. The assays were firstly evaluated with External Quality Assessment panels from INSTAND e.V. (Germany) and EVD-LabNet (The Netherlands) including 4 and 12 unknown samples, respectively, and secondly, with 9 human, mosquito, and monkey ZIKV isolates from Africa (Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Uganda) and America (Brazil). The limit of detection as determined by probit analysis was 181 molecules for both RT-LAMP assays, and 100% reproducibility in the assays was obtained for 103 molecules (4/8 repetitions were positive for 102 molecules). Both assays were specific, amplifying only ZIKV RNA and not cross-detecting other arboviruses included in this study. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z