CMS benchmark and field sampling

Offentlig prosjektsammendrag

CMS has become a major problem for salmon aquaculture particularly for larger fish. Marine Harvest have been investigating the genetic variation for resistance to the virus, PMCV, causing this disease since start of 2017 (project 279206). This project will benchmark fish which have been selected to be resistant against PMCV against fish which have not in order to measure the response to selection for this important disease. At the same time we will record and sample fish affected by this disease on production sites and genotype fish to investigate whether the same genetic variants are involved in challenge tests and on production sites.