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Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment

Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment

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September 11, 2018

DOI:

10.3791/57946-v

DOI:
10.3791/57946-v

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07:57 min
September 11, 2018

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1National Fish Health Research Laboratory, Leetown Science Center,U.S. Geological Survey, 2School of Natural Resources,West Virginia University

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The health of wild fishes can be used as an indicator of aquatic ecosystem health. Necropsy-based fish health assessments provide documentation of visible lesions or abnormalities, data used to calculate condition indices as well as the opportunity to collect tissues for microscopic evaluation, gene expression and other more in-depth analyses.

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Blazer, V. S., Walsh, H. L., Braham, R. P., Smith, C. Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment. J. Vis. Exp. (139), e57946, doi:10.3791/57946 (2018).

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