PMID- 33348814 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20240330 IS - 2076-0817 (Print) IS - 2076-0817 (Electronic) IS - 2076-0817 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 12 DP - 2020 Dec 17 TI - Differential Mortality and High Viral Load in Naive Pacific Oyster Families Exposed to OsHV-1 Suggests Tolerance Rather than Resistance to Infection. LID - 10.3390/pathogens9121057 [doi] LID - 1057 AB - Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas, are one of the most productive aquaculture species in the world. However, they are threatened by the spread of Ostreid herpesvirus-1 (OsHV-1) and its microvariants (collectively "microvars"), which cause mass mortalities in all life stages of Pacific oysters globally. Breeding programs have been successful in reducing mortality due to OsHV-1 variants following viral outbreaks; however, an OsHV-1-resistant oyster line does not yet exist in the United States (US), and it is unknown how OsHV-1 microvars will affect US oyster populations compared to the current variant, which is similar to the OsHV-1 reference, found in Tomales Bay, CA. The goals of this study were to investigate the resistance of C. gigas juveniles produced by the Molluscan Broodstock Program (MBP) to three variants of OsHV-1: a California reference OsHV-1, an Australian microvar, and a French microvar. This is the first study to directly compare OsHV-1 microvars to a non-microvar. The survival probability of oysters exposed to the French (FRA) or Australian (AUS) microvar was significantly lower (43% and 71%, respectively) than to the reference variant and controls (96%). No oyster family demonstrated resistance to all three OsHV-1 variants, and many surviving oysters contained high copy numbers of viral DNA (mean ~3.53 x 10(8)). These results indicate that the introduction of OsHV-1 microvars could have substantial effects on US Pacific oyster aquaculture if truly resistant lines are not achieved, and highlight the need to consider resistance to infection in addition to survival as traits in breeding programs to reduce the risk of the spread of OsHV-1 variants. FAU - Agnew, M Victoria AU - Agnew MV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0404-1355 AD - Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA. FAU - Friedman, Carolyn S AU - Friedman CS AD - School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. FAU - Langdon, Christopher AU - Langdon C AD - Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR 97365, USA. FAU - Divilov, Konstantin AU - Divilov K AD - Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR 97365, USA. FAU - Schoolfield, Blaine AU - Schoolfield B AD - Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR 97365, USA. FAU - Morga, Benjamin AU - Morga B AD - Ifremer, SG2M, LGPMM, 17390 La Tremblade, France. FAU - Degremont, Lionel AU - Degremont L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6759-6791 AD - Ifremer, SG2M, LGPMM, 17390 La Tremblade, France. FAU - Dhar, Arun K AU - Dhar AK AD - Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. FAU - Kirkland, Peter AU - Kirkland P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8026-4185 AD - NSW Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, NSW 2568, Australia. FAU - Dumbauld, Brett AU - Dumbauld B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0113-4791 AD - Hatfield Marine Science Center, USDA-ARS, Newport, OR 97365, USA. FAU - Burge, Colleen A AU - Burge CA AD - Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA. LA - eng GR - 2072-31000-004-00D/U.S. Department of Agriculture/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20201217 PL - Switzerland TA - Pathogens JT - Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101596317 PMC - PMC7766980 OTO - NOTNLM OT - OsHV-1 OT - oyster OT - qPCR OT - tolerance OT - virulence OT - virus OT - microvars COIS- The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results. EDAT- 2020/12/23 06:00 MHDA- 2020/12/23 06:01 PMCR- 2020/12/17 CRDT- 2020/12/22 01:04 PHST- 2020/11/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/12/15 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/12/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/12/22 01:04 [entrez] PHST- 2020/12/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/12/23 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/12/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - pathogens9121057 [pii] AID - pathogens-09-01057 [pii] AID - 10.3390/pathogens9121057 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Pathogens. 2020 Dec 17;9(12):1057. doi: 10.3390/pathogens9121057.