Moritella viscosa
Moritella viscosa is one of the causative agents of winter ulcer. The disease affects both Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and results in increased mortality rates as well as major economical losses due to downgrading fish at slaughter.
Data Downloads
This project is ongoing and data for this organism will be made available in due course.
The aim on this project will be to sequence the genomes of M. viscosa and A. wodanis. Since A. wodanis and A. salmonicida are closely related, and both important economic fish pathogens, this will provide an excellent comparator genome. Also this will allow the identification of genes that are potentially involved in virulence, and may highlight new targets for vaccine development. However, since we aim to look at the possible interactions between M. viscosa and A. wodanis the genomes will also support the biological program that will run alongside the genome sequencing.
Collaborators
Nils Peder Willassen and Erik Hjerde – Department of Molecular Biotechnology, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
Henning Sørum – Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, P.O. Box 8146 Dep, N-0033 Oslo, Norway
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Data Use Statement
This sequencing centre plans on publishing the completed and annotated sequences in a peer-reviewed journal as soon as possible. Permission of the principal investigator should be obtained before publishing analyses of the sequence/open reading frames/genes on a chromosome or genome scale. See our data sharing policy.
Sequencing enquiries
Please address all sequencing enquiries to: pathinfo@sanger.ac.uk
