(Niko Komin) has movedAnyone of the #zebrafish people here ever introduced pet store animals into their lab population? Or some other unconventional sources? Would love to hear from you. Please boost for visibility.
PLOS Biology"I caught it in the pet shop." @keirballa @james_gagnon &co show that #zebrafish from the pet trade harbor many microbes that can be transmitted to experimentally tractable lab zebrafish for further study (incl the first zebrafish #birnavirus) #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3yJBRba
Microbe transmission from pet shop to lab-reared zebrafish reveals a pathogenic birnavirus
Zebrafish are a well-known model organism, but are laboratory conditions too clean to be physiologically relevant? In this study, zebrafish from the pet trade are shown to harbor many more microbes, which can be transmitted to experimentally tractable laboratory zebrafish for further study. Using this strategy, the authors identify the first zebrafish birnavirus, showing that it is pathogenic for laboratory zebrafish.