Ross Houston and Andrew C Preston from Benchmark have just visited the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling for the kick-off meeting of an exciting UK research council project called “Mitigating salmon gill disease by integrating genotype-environment studies with host-gill microbiome associations”.
This three-year £1.2M project is a collaboration with leading researchers at Stirling and the University of Aberdeen and will study the mechanisms contributing to genetic resistance to complex gill disease, focusing on characterising the functional role of the microbiome in gill health outcomes.
This research is built upon our ongoing gill health and sentinel family trials taking place annually in Scotland, part of a major initiative to further improve the performance, health, and robustness of our genetic products.
