Research Microbiologist
Email:
gkurath@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
206-526-6583
Fax:
206-526-6654
ORCID:
0000-0003-3294-560X
Location
6505 N.E. 65th Street
Seattle
, WA
98115
US
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Theory of the evolution of pathogen specialization suggests that a specialist pathogen gains high fitness in one host, but this comes with fitness loss in other hosts. By contrast, a generalist pathogen does not achieve high fitness in any host, but gains ecological fitness by exploiting different hosts, and has higher fitness than specialists in non-specialized hosts. As a result, specialist pathogens are predicted to have greater variation in fitness across hosts, and generalists would have lower fitness variation across hosts. We test these hypotheses by measuring pathogen replicative fitness as within-host viral loads from the onset of infection to the beginning of virus clearance, using the rhabdovirus infectious...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Aquatic Biology,
Ecology,
Pacific Northwest,
RNA viruses,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
Wildlife Disease,
farming,
generalism,
pathogen,
replication,
salmonids,
specialization,
tradeoffs,
viral load, Fewer tags
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This investigation sought to characterize the shedding of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) in two populations of Columbia River Basin (CRB) Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Juvenile spring- and fall-run Chinook salmon were exposed by immersion to each of three IHN virus strains from the UC, MD, and L subgroups, and then monitored for viral shedding from individual fish for 30 days. Detectable quantities of UC, MD and L IHN virus were shed by a subset of fish from each host population (1–9 out of 10 fish total in each treatment group). Viral shedding kinetics were consistent, with a rapid onset of shedding, peak shedding by 2–3 days, and then a rapid decline to below detectable levels by 7...
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6PPD-Quinone (6PPD-Q) was recently implicated in inducing mass pre-spawn mortality events in adult coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Pacific Northwest. Since then, studies have reported highly variable toxicity among fish species, including within the salmonids. This dataset explores the sensitivity of coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii) at three different life stages: alevin, juveniles, and young of the year, and also includes analytically measured concentrations for the alevin and juvenile experiments.
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Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) represents one of the most critical challenges for salmonids in the Pacific Northwest. There are three genogroups of IHNV, designated U, M, and L; the U is further delineated into two subgroups, UC and UP, and the M is further delineated into four subgroups (MA – MD). The UP, UC and MD subgroups co-occur in the Columbia River Basin where the host species sockeye salmon, Chinook salmon, and steelhead trout spawn and rear. Field prevalence data shows that UC viruses exhibit a generalist strategy in Chinook, and steelhead, while two other virus lineages, MD and UP, are more consistent with being specialists in steelhead or sockeye salmon, respectively. The L is found in...
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