1. For pet's sake: Discovering a naturally occurring zebrafish virus.
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Virgo, Mollie, Ho, Brian Thomas, and Mostowy, Serge
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LABORATORY zebrafish , *BRACHYDANIO , *VIRUS diseases , *PATHOGENIC viruses , *COOPERATIVE housing - Abstract
Zebrafish are often used to model host-pathogen interactions, but few models of natural virus infection have been established. A new study in PLOS Biology shows that metatranscriptomics and cohousing experiments can uncover a natural pathogenic virus of zebrafish for laboratory study. Zebrafish are often used to model host-pathogen interactions, but few models of natural virus infection have been established. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology that presents a strategy to uncover viruses that are natural pathogens of laboratory zebrafish using meta-transcriptomics and co-housing experiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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