Blood flukes cause serious health issues for farmed bluefin tuna worldwide. Their infection severity has been assessed by counting adult flukes in heart flushes. However, Cardicola orientalis adults reside in blood vessels in the gills. The aim of this study was to assess species composition, prevalence and intensity of adult blood fluke infection in gill blood vessels of ranched Southern Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus maccoyii . Based...

Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) have been proposed as the future of aquaculture, because they can be used anywhere regardless of access to water, they offer high level of control over farming environment, including biosecurity, and are considered to be sustainable. However, despite of continuous development, there can be still issues with water quality affecting gill health of fish farmed in these systems. This review...

Handfish (Family Brachionichthyidae) is the most threatened marine teleost fish family, however, there is little information on handfish health. We reviewed the results of submissions of mortalities from captive and captive bred spotted handfish ( Branchionichthys hirsutus (Lacepède, 1804)) and red handfish ( Thymichthys politus (Richardson, 1844)) from a public aquarium from January 2018 to February 2024. Seventeen cases for...

Genotype-limited plant regeneration is one of the main obstacles to the broader use of genetic transformation in barley breeding. Thus, developing new approaches that might improve responses of in vitro recalcitrant genotypes remains at the center of barley biotechnology. Here, we analyzed different barley genotypes, including “Golden Promise,” a genotype commonly used in the genetic transformation, and four malting barley cul...