Invertebrate Pathology

About this book

Many invertebrates are serious pests of agriculture (e.g., mites and locusts), vectors of disease (e.g., mosquitoes and aquatic snails) and venomous (e.g., scorpions), whilst others are beneficial to humans as pollinators, food sources, and detritivores. Despite their obvious ecological, medical, and economic importance, this is the first comprehensive review of invertebrate diseases to be available within a single volume.

Concurrent molecular and bioinformatics developments over the last decade have catalysed a renaissance in invertebrate pathology. High-throughput sequencing, handheld diagnostic kits, and the move to new technologies have rapidly increased our understanding of invertebrate diseases, generating a large volume of fundamental and applied research on the topic. An overview is now timely and this authoritative work assembles an international team of the leading specialists in the field to review the main diseases and pathologic manifestations of all the major invertebrate groups. Each chapter adopts a common plan in terms of its scope and approach to achieve a succinct and coherent synthesis.

Invertebrate Pathology is aimed at graduate students and researchers in the fields of disease ecology, invertebrate biology, comparative immunology, aquaculture, fisheries, veterinary science, evolution, and conservation. It will be particularly useful for readers new to the field as well as a broader interdisciplinary audience of practitioners and resource managers.

Contents

Preface

PART I: HOST DEFENCES AND APPROACHES TO DISEASE DETECTION
1. Host Defences of Invertebrates to Pathogens and Parasites / Christopher J. Coates, Andrew F. Rowley, L. Courtenay Smith and Miranda M.A. Whitten
2. Host Defences of Invertebrates to Non-Communicable Diseases / Christopher J. Coates
3. Diagnostic Approaches in Invertebrate Pathology / David Bass, Andrew F. Rowley, Christopher J. Coates

PART II: THE DISEASES
SECTION A: Diseases of Acoelomate and Coelomate Protostomes
4. Diseases of Scleractinian Corals / David G. Bourne, Hillary A. Smith and Cathie A. Page
5. Diseases of Sponges / Heidi M. Luter and Nicole S. Webster
6. Diseases of Platyhelminths, Acanthocephalans and Nematodes / Matt Longshaw and Andy Shinn
7. Diseases of Annelids / Jacqueline L. Stroud
8. Diseases of Molluscs / Sharon A. Lynch, Andrew F. Rowley, Matt Longshaw, Shelagh K. Malham and Sarah C. Culloty
SECTION B: Diseases of Arthropods
9. Diseases of Chelicerates / Christopher J. Coates
10. Viral Diseases of Insects / Vera I.D. Ros, Delphine Panziera, Remziye Nalçacioglu, Jirka Manuel Petersen, Eugene Ryabov and Monique M. van Oers
11. Bacterial Diseases of Insects / Heba Abdelgaffar, Trevor Jackson and Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes
12. Fungal and Oomycete Diseases of Insects / Almudena Ortiz-Urquiza
13. Parasitic Diseases of Insects / Miranda M. A. Whitten
14. Viral Diseases of Crustaceans / Arun K. Dhar, Roberto Cruz-Flores and Kelly S. Bateman
15. Bacterial Diseases of Crustaceans / Andrew F. Rowley
16. Fungal and Oomycete Diseases of Crustaceans / Andrew F. Rowley, Jenny Makkonen and Jeffrey D. Shields
17. Parasitic Diseases of Crustaceans / Jeffrey D. Shields
SECTION C: Diseases of Deuterostomes
18. Echinoderm Diseases and Pathologies / L. Courtney Smith, S. Anne Boettger, Maria Byrne, Andreas Heyland, Diana L. Lipscomb, Audrey J. Majeske, Jonathan P. Rast, Nicholas W. Schuh, Linsheng Song, Ghada Tafesh-Edwards, Lingling Wang, Zhuang Xue, Zichao Yu
19. Ecological Outcomes of Echinoderm Disease, Mass Die-offs, and Pandemics / L. Courtney Smith, Maria Byrne, Keryn B. Gedan, Diana L. Lipscomb, Audrey J. Majeske and Ghada Tafesh-Edwards
20. Diseases of Tunicates and Cephalochordates / Andrew F. Rowley and Shin-Ichi Kitamura

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Biography

Andrew F. Rowley is a Professor of Biosciences at Swansea University, Wales, UK. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and edited several books. His main interest is in invertebrate immunology and pathology. He has supervised over 30 doctoral students in his career and currently has over £1 million of grant income from the EU and UKRI. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.

Christopher J. Coates currently holds the rank and title of Associate Professor (Reader) in Biosciences at Swansea University, Wales, UK. He has published over 40 papers and review articles in the area of comparative immunology and immunopathology (crustaceans, chelicerates, echinoderms, insects, and molluscs). Ongoing research activities are supported by approximately £2 million in grant income from several national and international sources (e.g., EU Interreg, RISE, Sêr Cymru). Christopher is the joint-lead for Shellfish Health and Diseases as part of the BBSRC/NERC-sponsored Aquaculture Research Collaboration Hub UK, and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Developmental and Comparative Immunology.

Miranda M.A. Whitten is a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University Medical School's Institute of Life Science, Wales, UK. She is the joint-lead for biopesticide development (symbiont-mediated RNA interference) within the Microbes and Immunity research section. She is a scientific advisor for the biopesticide industry and has recently published over twenty papers and reviews on the themes of insect immunity, crustacean microbiology, and the commercial applications of insect microbes in pest control and in parasite transmission. She teaches infectious disease and parasitology and has recently attracted more than £800,000 grant income from sources including the BBSRC, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Russian Science Foundation.
 

Contributors:
- Heba Abdelgaffar, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, USA
- David Bass, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK
- Kelly S. Bateman, 2OIE Collaborating Centre for Emerging Aquatic Animal Diseases, CEFAS, UK
- S. Anne Boettger, Department of Biology, West Chester University, USA
- David G. Bourne, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University and Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia
- Maria Byrne, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia
- Christopher J. Coates, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, UK
- Sarah C. Culloty, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland
- Arun K. Dhar, Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA
- Roberto Cruz-Flores, Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA
- Keryn B. Gedan, Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, USA
- Andreas Heyland, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Canada
- Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennessee, USA
- Trevor Jackson, AgResearch Ltd, Lincoln Research Centre, New Zealand
- Shin-Ichi Kitamura, Centre for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Japan
- Diana L. Lipscomb, Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, USA
- Matt Longshaw, Calysta (UK) Ltd, UK
- Heidi M. Luter, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia
- Sharon A. Lynch, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland
- Audrey J. Majeske, Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, USA
- Jenny Makkonen, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland and Biological Safety Solutions Ltd./Oy, Finland
- Shelagh K. Malham, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, UK
- Remziye Nalçacioglu, Insect Virology, Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey
- Almudena Ortiz-Urquiza, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, UK
- Cathie A. Page, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia
- Delphine Panziera, Biointeractions and Plant Health, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
- Jirka Manuel Petersen, Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
- Jonathan P. Rast, Department of Medical Biophysics and Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University and Emory Vaccine Center, USA
- Vera I.D. Ros, Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
- Andrew F. Rowley, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, UK
- Eugene Ryabov, Bee Research Laboratory, USDA, USA
- Nicholas W. Schuh, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
- Jeffrey D. Shields, Department of Aquatic Health Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, USA
- Andy Shinn, Benchmark R&D (Thailand) Ltd, Chonburi, Thailand and Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Australia
- Hillary A. Smith, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Australia
- L. Courtney Smith, Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, USA
- Linsheng Song, Laoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, PRC China
- Jacqueline L. Stroud, Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC, Scotland, UK
- Ghada Tafesh-Edwards, Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, USA
- Monique M. van Oers, Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
- Lingling Wang, Laoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, PRC China
- Nicole S. Webster, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland and Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland, Australia
- Miranda W. Whitten, Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Wales, UK
- Zhuang Xue, Laoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, PRC China
- Zichao Yu, Laoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Ocean University, PRC China