Genetics and Genomics

This fish species has become a powerful model organism for the study of vertebrate biology, developmental and genetic research, and more recently infectious disease studies.

Viruses occur in many cultured and wild stocks of fish. William Batts collaborates with many government, state, tribal, and private research and diagnostic laboratories to aid in identification of these unknown replicating agents of uncertain pathogenicity. Typically, viruses can be replicated in a variety of fish cell lines and investigated at several temperatures to see if the cytopathic effect...

Fish Diseases - Emerging Viruses

Fish Diseases - Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS)

Fish Diseases - Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis (IHN)