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Donald V. Lightner
Researcher at University of Arizona
Publications - 205
Citations - 13332
Donald V. Lightner is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Shrimp & Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 205 publications receiving 12079 citations.
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A handbook of shrimp pathology and diagnostic procedures for diseases of cultured penaeid shrimp
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Determination of the infectious nature of the agent of acute hepatopancreatic necrosis syndrome affecting penaeid shrimp
Loc H. Tran,Linda M. Nunan,Rita M. Redman,Leone L. Mohney,Carlos R. Pantoja,Kevin Fitzsimmons,Donald V. Lightner +6 more
TL;DR: AHPNS has a bacterial etiology and Koch's Postulates have been satisfied in laboratory challenge studies with the isolate, which has been identified as a member of the Vibrio harveyi clade, most closely related to V. parahemolyticus.
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Shrimp diseases and current diagnostic methods.
TL;DR: The most important diseases of cultured penaeid shrimp have had viral or bacterial etiologies, but a few important diseases have fungal and protozoan agents as their cause as mentioned in this paper.
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The opportunistic marine pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus becomes virulent by acquiring a plasmid that expresses a deadly toxin
Chung-Te Lee,I. Tung Chen,I. Tung Chen,Yi Ting Yang,Yi Ting Yang,Tzu-Ping Ko,Yun Tzu Huang,Jiun Yan Huang,Ming Fen Huang,Shin Jen Lin,Chien-Yu Chen,Shih Shuen Lin,Donald V. Lightner,Han Ching Wang,Andrew H.-J. Wang,Hao Ching Wang,Lien-I Hor,Chu Fang Lo,Chu Fang Lo +18 more
TL;DR: It is shown that an AHPND-causing strain of V. parahaemolyticus contains a 70-kbp plasmid with a postsegregational killing system, and that the ability to cause disease is abolished by the natural absence or experimental deletion of the plasmids-encoded homologs of the Photorhabdus insect-related toxins PirA and PirB.