{"id":15935,"date":"2023-10-16T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15935"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:45:00","slug":"tipv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tipv\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV):\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a small, nonenveloped,\u00a0<strong>single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) virus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>was first reported in China<\/strong> in 2019 and Thailand in 2021. India is the third country to report the occurrence of TiPV.<\/li>\n<li>This virus was localized in the gills, heart, brain, liver, pancreas, spleen, intestine, kidney, eyes, and muscles of tilapia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key facts about Tilapia fish<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tilapia is a common name used for certain species of fishes belonging to\u00a0<strong>the family Cich lidae (order Perciformes).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These are freshwater\u00a0<strong>species native to Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is easily raised and harvested food fish.<\/li>\n<li>Their commercial advantages include resistance to disease, and a diet of readily abundant algae and zooplankton.<\/li>\n<li>Tilapia\u2019 has emerged to be one of the most productive and internationally traded \u00a0 food \u00a0 fish \u00a0 in \u00a0 the \u00a0 world.<\/li>\n<li>The culture of tilapia has become commercially popular in many parts of the world and the\u00a0 fishery experts have dubbed\u00a0<strong>the tilapia as \u201caquatic chicken<\/strong>\u201d due to its quick growth and low maintenance cultivation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mozambique tilapia<\/strong> was introduced to Indian fresh water bodies in the 1950s and it is called\u00a0<strong>Jilabi in Tamil.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Capable of\u00a0<strong>surviving in low-oxygen levels in water<\/strong>, the fish has turned invasive across the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nile tilapia<\/strong> introduced in the 1970s is a\u00a0<strong>little bigger and is cultured on a large-scale<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In India,\u00a0<strong>tilapia farming<\/strong> is being carried out in different parts of\u00a0<strong>Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Although tilapia are robust and adapted to intensive farming conditions and environmental changes, disease outbreaks, particularly those with viral origins, continue to threaten tilapia production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is DNA?<\/h3>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions necessary for the growth, development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/first-tilapia-parvovirus-reported-in-tamil-nadu\/article67423521.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>First tilapia parvovirus reported in Tamil Nadu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilapia parvovirus (TiPV)  is a small, nonenveloped, single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}