We received seed funding as part of a collaborative group, including the Morley lab at ECU, to examine black gill disease in panaeid and panopeid shrimp!

This past spring we started a new project with Jim Morley's lab at ECU to examine black gill disease prevalence in the Pamlico Sound, where very little on the disease is thus far known in the region. We will use morphological and PCR-based approaches to try to get a better understanding of prevalence in these populations, since not all infected shrimp will be obviously symptomatic. We also intend to see if panopeid shrimp may serve as a reservoir of infection for panaeid shrimp in the region.