|
|
|
Home | * NEW - Koi TV * | Koi Mart | Koi For Sale | Tategoi | Yamakoshi | Koi Hotels | Koi Store | Koimag BBS |
KOI NEWS: The Great Nishikigoi Giveaway | Post a Message | To the BBS Main Page
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Home | * NEW - Koi TV * | Koi Mart | Koi For Sale | Tategoi | Yamakoshi | Koi Hotels | Koi Store | Koimag BBS | |
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
KOI NEWS: The Great Nishikigoi Giveaway | Post a Message | To the BBS Main Page |
|||
|
|
Posted by JR
on 4/29/2009, 10:56 am, in reply to "Re: interesting virus theories being bantered around"
205.188.117.70
I see someone's been googling again--
Actually most mutations are utter failures. Just another roll of the DNA dice that has no place in the ecosystem - just another test for survival. And you're right in that the most successful virus is one that lives on as survival of the species is most important. But the life cycle of a virus is short no matter what- either the virus kills the host or the host's immune system kills the virus and that local community is doomed in that particular host universe. Many many viruses live harmlessly in and around us. Like bacteria, they need to be broken into pathogens and non pathogens and then into virulent pathogens and opportunistic pathogens. Virulent pathogens are what we are usually talking about when we talk virus as they matter to us most. The scary virus is the new virus with a 'better tool kit'.
A virus is all about taking over an individual host cell and pirating the ship! Their goal is to take control and order the cell to make more of it rather than more of the cell itself. Because the individual cell has a mission and function of it's own, it must at some point perform it's function for the greater system and it must duplicate itself over time. Virus makes this to one degree or another impaired to impossible, and that results in temporary illness to death.
Many of us have wondered about the mutation of carp pox and it's link to KHV. Professionals shot down this worry in the very beginning as the new virus looked nothing like the carp pox herpes virus under EM work. The virus is much larger for instance than the carp pox herpes virus ( CV-1).
Still, it is curious that the carp pox virus, a harmless virus, is also temperature linked in it's cycle triggers. Then again, so is SVC a completely different virus.
What we do know is that many viruses in carp, ( such as SVC) can be transmitted to embryonic stage larva during development. No research has been done in this area whatsoever, This includes the notion that viable fry can be carriers or immune individuals. Since fry have no real functioning immune system this becomes a paradox. If they are infected they should be dead? If they live, and their parents were carries shedding virus, how could they be alive? But I digress---
JR
Home | *
NEW
-
Koi TV
*
|
Koi Mart |
Koi For Sale |
Tategoi |
Yamakoshi |
Koi Hotels |
Koi Store |
Koimag BBS
Innovation House, Parkside Business Park, Golborne, Warrington, Cheshire, WA3
3PY Nishikigoi International Ltd does not
qualify any of the material posted for accuracy and so accepts no
responsibility or liability whatsoever either direct or consequential
for any information posted on the message board. Acceptance of the
aforementioned is a complicit term of viewing and or posting messages on
the board
Copyright 2004 © Nishikigoi International, Ltd.
Tel: 01942 777879 ~ Fax: 01942 777876 ~
nikoimag@aol.com