A salmon virus with a potential for change
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 11:14
in Biology & Nature
Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) is one of the most economically-damaging diseases in Norwegian fish farming industry. It is caused by a marine Orthomyxovirus, the same family that produces the influenza A virus that causes disease in birds and mammals. For his doctorate, Turhan Markussen looked at factors of the ISA virus genes that influence its ability to cause disease in salmon...