Table 2.

Shrimp viruses discovered using traditional cell culture methods.

Virus	Virus family	Nucleic acid	Clinical signs first reported		Etiological virus identified and characterized
			Year*	References	Year*	References
Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus	Parvoviridae	ssDNA	1981	Brock et al., 1983; Lightner et al., 2004	1984	Lightner and Redman, 1985
Taura syndrome virus	Dicistroviridae	(+)ssRNA	1991	Jimenez, 1992	1994	Hasson et al., 1995
Yellow head disease virus	Roniviridae	(+)ssRNA	1991	Limsuwan, 1991	1999	Tang and Lightner, 1999
White spot syndrome virus	Nimaviridae	dsDNA	1992	Lotz, 1997	2001	van Hulten et al., 2001; Yang et al., 2001
Macrobrachium rosenbergil nodavirus	Nodaviridae	(+)ssRNA	1997	Arcier et al., 1999	1999	Arcier et al., 1999
Shrimp infectious myonecrosis virus	Totiviridae	dsRNA	2002	Lightner et al., 2004; Nunes et al., 2004	2006	Poulos et al., 2006
Penaeus vannamei nodavirus	Nodaviridae	(+)ssRNA	2004	Tang et al., 2007	2004	Tang et al., 2007

^*Year virus discovered and characterized.