“…In teleost fish, the innate immune system plays a critical role in host against virus infection, but studies on the immune system of sea perch are still limited. In recent years, researches on immunity of sea perch against NNV infection were mainly focused on single genes, and only a few immune‐related genes, including LGP2 (Jia, Zhang et al, ), MDA5 (Jia, Jia et al, ), MAVS (Jia, Jin et al, ), TRAF3 (Zhang et al, ), HSP27 (Le, Jia et al, ) and RAVER1 (Jia et al, ), have been identified and characterized in sea perch. However, knowledge about the immunity system of sea perch, especially the immune response‐related signalling pathways implicated in NNV infection, still remains incomplete.…”