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  • Title: Investigating conspecific CsRV1 transmission in Callinectes sapidus.
    Author: Lively JA, Spitznagel MI, Schott EJ, Small HJ.
    Journal: J Invertebr Pathol; 2023 Nov; 201():107987. PubMed ID: 37634623.
    Abstract:
    A reo-like virus, CsRV1, is found in blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, from every North American location assessed, including Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, USA and associated with blue crabs in softshell production. CsRV1-associated crab mortality is prevalent in captive crabs, but it is still unknown how CsRV1 is transmitted. The purpose of this study was to examine the role that conspecific predation or scavenging may play in per os transmission in single exposure and repeated exposure experiments. For viruses without cell culture propagation, repeated exposure experiments have the challenge of presenting the virus consistently during the experiment and across time replicates. In a single-exposure experiment, none of the crabs fed muscle tissue of crabs carrying intense infections of CsRV1 developed CsRV1 infections. In a repeated-exposure trial, using infected muscle tissue prepared in alginate blocks, CsRV1 was detected in 11% of the crabs fed infected tissue but was not significantly different from the control group fed alginate lacking CsRV1. For repeated per os exposure experiments, the study demonstrated the utility of using alginate to present the same homogenous sample of virus, both injected and per os, over time for oral challenge experiments. Conspecific predation and scavenging could be a transmission route, but future work into this and other possible routes of transmission for CsRV1 is important to better understand the role this virus plays in wild crab populations and the soft-shell crab industry.
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