Viral diseases exert a tremendous effect on aquaculture economics. Spring viraemia of carp (SVC) caused by spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV) is one of the most serious aquatic viral diseases (Ahne et al., 2002). SVCV can infect almost all fish of cyprinids, including Cyprinus carpio, Danio rerio and Ctenophartngodon iddellus, and the mortality rate of juvenile fish is more than 90% (Ashraf et al., 2016; Embregts et al., 2019). SVCV, a cytopathic virus belonging to the genus Sprivivirus of the family Rhabdoviridae, is a single-stranded RNA virus with a genome length of 11,019 nucleotides, five open reading frames and five proteins: nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), polymerase (L), matrix protein (M) and glycoprotein (G)