Lorenzo Colombo

TL;DR: This review focuses on some current issues related to the application of induced polyploidy in aquaculture and the effectiveness of current triploidisation techniques, including the applicability of tetraploids to generate auto- and allotriploids and the degree and permanence of gonadal sterility in triploids.

TL;DR: The pheromonal system of the black goby resembles that of the pig where the smell of the testicular 16-androstenes in the boar's breath induces the mating stance in the estrous sow.

TL;DR: RNA1 and RNA2 genes substitution rates do not follow a clock-like behavior thus impeding estimation of a possible origin time for Betanodavirus genus, and the molecular evolution of proteins A and CPp appeared to have evolved under strong purifying selection.

TL;DR: The inclusion of nested PCR in the assay appears to be necessary to screen out NNV-positive broodfish by blood sampling and testing of their larval progeny, and to confirm the specificity of the first amplification.

TL;DR: Two new independent SYBR Green I-based real-time PCR assays for both detection and quantification of betanodavirus, an RNA virus that infects several species of marine teleost fish causing massive mortalities in larvae and juveniles are developed.