Volume 110, Issue 2, June 2012 CONTENTS Special Issue on Diseases in Aquatic Crustaceans: Problems and Solutions for Global Food Security Guest Editor: Grant D. Stentiford Abstracted/indexed in EMBiology. Also covered in the abstract and citation database SciVerse Scopusâ . Full text available on SciVerse ScienceDirectâ . Preface Grant D. Stentiford.
Diseases in aquatic crustaceans: Problems and solutions for global food security ........................ 139
Reviews G.D. Stentiford, D.M. Neil, E.J. Peeler, J.D. Shields, H.J. Small, T.W. Flegel, J.M. Vlak, B. Jones, F. Morado, S. Moss, J. Lotz, L. Bartholomay, D.C. Behringer, C. Hauton, D.V. Lightner. Disease will limit future food supply from the global crustacean fishery and aquaculture sectors ...................................................................................................................... 141 Melba G. Bondad-Reantaso, Rohana P. Subasinghe, Helga Josupeit, Junning Cai, Xiaowei Zhou. The role of crustacean fisheries and aquaculture in global food security: Past, present and future ................................................................ 158 Timothy W. Flegel.
Historic emergence, impact and current status of shrimp pathogens in Asia .................................. 166
D.V. Lightner, R.M. Redman, C.R. Pantoja, K.F.J. Tang, B.L. Noble, P. Schofield, L.L. Mohney, L.M. Nunan, S.A. Navarro. Historic emergence, impact and current status of shrimp pathogens in the Americas ..................... 174 D.V. Lightner.
Global transboundry disease politics: The OIE perspective ......................................................................... 184
Edmund J. Peeler. Brian Jones.
Costs and benefits of freedom from shrimp diseases in the European Union .................................... 188
Transboundary movement of shrimp viruses in crustaceans and their products: A special risk? ............. 196
J. Frank Morado, M.S.M. Siddeek, Darrell R. Mullowney, Earl G. Dawe. Protistan parasites as mortality drivers in cold water crab fisheries.............................................................................................................................................................. 201 Jeffrey D. Shields.
The impact of pathogens on exploited populations of decapod crustaceans ...................................... 211
Donald C. Behringer. Diseases of wild and cultured juvenile crustaceans: Insights from below the minimum landing size ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 225 Hamish J. Small. Advances in our understanding of the global diversity and distribution of Hematodinium spp. – Significant pathogens of commercially exploited crustaceans ....................................................................................... 234 Shaun M. Moss, Dustin R. Moss, Steve M. Arce, Donald V. Lightner, Jeffrey M. Lotz. The role of selective breeding and biosecurity in the prevention of disease in penaeid shrimp aquaculture ..................................................................... 247 Chris Hauton.
The scope of the crustacean immune system for disease control............................................................... 251
Lyric C. Bartholomay, Duan S. Loy, J. Dustin Loy, D.L. Harris. Nucleic-acid based antivirals: Augmenting RNA interference to ‘vaccinateÕ Litopenaeus vannamei ............................................................................................................. 261 Douglas M. Neil.
Ensuring crustacean product quality in the post-harvest phase ............................................................ 267