Document Type

Article

Department/Program

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Publication Date

Fall 8-29-2022

Journal

Aquaculture

Abstract

Human-pathogenic Vibrio bacteria are common inhabitants of oyster tissues, but our understanding of factors driving the wide range of concentrations found in individual oysters is extremely limited. We examined the influence of oyster sex and parasitism in light of their profound effects on oyster tissues against a backdrop of eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, from two diploid and two triploid aquacultured lines. This allowed us to examine not only the effect of oyster ploidy but also of oyster genetics, a factor never investigated with regard to human-pathogenic Vibrio species. We measured levels of total Vibrio vulnificus (vvhA), and of total (tlh) and pathogenic (tdh+, trh+) V. parahaemolyticus, in each oyster, and analyzed the data through generalized linear mixed-effects models. A key outcome of these analyses was the consistent inclusion of oyster line as a predictor variable across Vibrio targets. A potential effect of Perkinsus marinus infections and/or oyster sex was also suggested, although the combination of variables varied with Vibrio target. This study suggests that the influence of oyster genetic background should be further investigated, and that the dynamics of human-pathogenic Vibrio spp. in oysters is likely driven by multiple, interacting factors, some of which may be under oyster host genetic control.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738763

Keywords

Vibrio, Crassostrea virginica, Oyster, Aquaculture, Seafood safety, Microbiome

Publication Statement

Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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