Metagenomic survey of zebrafish from the laboratory and the pet trade

This study involved sequencing of bulk ribo-depleted RNA from intestine, kidney, and spleen tissues of adult zebrafish reared in the laboratory and the pet trade to identify zebrafish-associated microbes in different environments. The goal was to identify viruses and other microbes that infect zebrafish to improve colony health monitoring and highlight pathogens that could be used to study infections of relevance to aquaculture and biomedicine.