Fish cell lines and its applications for disease management in mariculture- Winter School on Recent Advances in Breeding and Larviculture of Marine Finfish and Shellfish

摘要

Fish cell lines have an important role in the expanding aquaculture industry of the world. The main impetus forudthe development of many of the continuous fish cell lines was to provide the means for isolating and identifying virusesudthat are the causative agents of epizootics of commercially important species. Cell lines are indispensable foruddevelopment of precise diagnostics and prophylactics of the viral pathogens. Besides diagnosis, cell lines are importantudin the much required national and international quarantine and certification programme for producing virus free fishudstock. Fish cell lines have also found widespread application in cytogenetics, transgenics, toxicology, as in vitro modelsudfor studying cellular physiological processes and also in comparative immunology.