Disease control in bivalves

Bivalves are typically cultured on the open sea, which precludes the use of treatments to control disease. Bivalves can be treated only at the larval stage, in the hatcheries. Moreover, as previously discussed, bivalves, similar 

1 Sanitary control of trade by efficient and specific pathogen diagnosis 

The impact of these molecules in disease resistance remains unknown, but a better understanding of the molecular basis of bivalve immune response may allow these genes to be used as markers for disease resistance selection programmes. 

4 Bivalve selection programmes, genetic maps and quantitative trait loci (QTL) selection 

Efforts to identify bivalve stocks resistant to a variety of pathogens have been made over the last decades. Selection programmes based on breeding 

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