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Are Nylund is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has conducted extensive research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Immunology and Microbiology, and Environmental Science. Their work spans across various subfields including Immunology, Cancer Research, Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Microbiology.

Their research topics primarily focus on aquaculture disease management and microbiota, myxozoan parasites in aquatic species, parasite biology and host interactions, microbial infections and disease research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, identification and quantification in food, and studies related to Vibrio bacteria.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Heidrun Plarre, Erwan Lagadec, Linda Andersen, Egil Karlsbakk, and Christiane Tröße. The scientist also publishes regularly in specific venues that include Aquaculture, Parasites & Vectors, Journal of Fish Diseases, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, and Archives of Microbiology.

Notable recent papers by Are Nylund include:

  • "A novel protist parasite, Salmoxcellia vastator n. gen., n. sp. (Xcelliidae, Perkinsozoa), infecting farmed salmonids in Norway" (2021, Parasites & Vectors)
  • "Phylogenetic analyses of Norwegian Tenacibaculum strains confirm high bacterial diversity and suggest circulation of ubiquitous virulent strains" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Optimization of Low-Biomass Sample Collection and Quantitative PCR-Based Titration Impact 16S rRNA Microbiome Resolution" (2022, Microbiology Spectrum)
  • "Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and ballan wrasse Labrus bergylta display different susceptibility to clonal strains of Paramoeba perurans" (2020, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms)
  • "Net cleaning impacts Atlantic salmon gill health through microbiome dysbiosis" (2023, Frontiers in Aquaculture)

Best Publications

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2019.

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;María A. Ayllón;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

    Jens H. Kuhn;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • The putative polymerase sequence of infectious salmon anemia virus suggests a new genus within the Orthomyxoviridae.

    Bjørn Krossøy;Ivar Hordvik;Frank Nilsen;Are Nylund

  • Use of RT-PCR for diagnosis of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) in carrier sea trout Salmo trutta after experimental infection.

    M Devold;B Krossøy;V Aspehaug;A Nylund

  • New subtype of salmonid alphavirus (SAV), Togaviridae, from Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in Norway.

    K Hodneland;A Bratland;K E Christie;C Endresen

  • Francisella sp. (Family Francisellaceae) causing mortality in Norwegian cod (Gadus morhua) farming

    Are Nylund;Karl F. Ottem;Kuninori Watanabe;Egil Karlsbakk

  • Emergence and maintenance of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) in Europe: a new hypothesis

    A Nylund;M Devold;H Plarre;E Isdal

  • Paranucleospora theridion n. gen., n. sp. (Microsporidia, Enterocytozoonidae) with a Life Cycle in the Salmon Louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis, Copepoda) and Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar).

    Stian Nylund;Are Nylund;Kuninori Watanabe;Carl E. Arnesen

  • Development, application and validation of a Taqman real-time RT-PCR assay for the detection of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).

    M. Snow;P. Mckay;A. J. A. Mcbeath;J. Black

  • Elevation of Francisella philomiragia subsp. noatunensis Mikalsen et al. (2007) to Francisella noatunensis comb. nov. [syn. Francisella piscicida Ottem et al. (2008) syn. nov.] and characterization of Francisella noatunensis subsp. orientalis subsp. nov., two important fish pathogens.

    K.F. Ottem;A. Nylund;E. Karlsbakk;A. Friis-Møller

  • Characterization of 'Candidatus Clavochlamydia salmonicola': an intracellular bacterium infecting salmonid fish.

    Marius Karlsen;Are Nylund;Kuninori Watanabe;Jon V. Helvik

  • Mechanisms for transmission of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA).

    A. Nylund;T. Hovland;K. Hodneland;F. Nilsen

  • Morphogenesis of salmonid gill poxvirus associated with proliferative gill disease in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Norway

    Are Nylund;K. Watanabe;S. Nylund;M. Karlsen

  • Prevalence of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) in wild salmonids in western Norway

    Heidrun Plarre;M. Devold;M. Snow;Are Nylund

  • ISA virus in Chile: evidence of vertical transmission.

    Siri Vike;Stian Nylund;Are Nylund

  • Transmission of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) in farmed populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).

    A. Nylund;H. Plarre;M. Karlsen;F. Fridell

  • Cloning and identification of the infectious salmon anaemia virus haemagglutinin.

    Bjørn Krossøy;Magnus Devold;Lisette Sanders;Per Morten Knappskog

  • Strain variation, based on the hemagglutinin gene, in Norwegian ISA virus isolates collected from 1987 to 2001: indications of recombination

    M. Devold;K. Falk;O. B. Dale;B. Krossøy

  • Observation of infectious salmon anaemia virus in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.

    T. Hovland;A. Nylund;K. Watanabe;C. Endresen

  • Genetic stability within the Norwegian subtype of salmonid alphavirus (family Togaviridae).

    M. Karlsen;K. Hodneland;C. Endresen;A. Nylund

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Nilsen
Frank Nilsen University of Bergen
Marianne Køie
Marianne Køie University of Copenhagen
Norbert Nowotny
Norbert Nowotny University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Andrew J. Easton
Andrew J. Easton University of Warwick
Janusz T. Paweska
Janusz T. Paweska National Health Laboratory Service
Nikos Vasilakis
Nikos Vasilakis The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Noël Tordo
Noël Tordo Institut Pasteur
Elke Mühlberger
Elke Mühlberger Boston University
Jan Felix Drexler
Jan Felix Drexler Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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