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Until recently, fish cell culture primarily has been useful only in the propagation and study of epidemic viruses significant to the fishing industry. Such fish cell lines derived were developed by appropriating classical techniques of mammalian cell culture, with serum as the major growth supplement. Using an approach in which culture medium is formulated in a cell-type-specific manner with minimal serum and a variety of synergistic supplements, several fish cell lines have been derived that may serve multiple uses. We established cell lines from a potentially tumorous skin lesion of a green moray eel (Gymnothorax funebris) and control tissues, and identified putative retroviral particles in the medium from the tumor cells that are not present in medium from cultures of normal cells from the same eel. The relationship between the virus and the cause of the tumor is not clear, but the genomic structure of this virus should provide useful information in understanding the evolution of retroviruses in general.
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Received January 31, 2001; accepted March 30, 2001
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Buck, C., Walsh, C., Davis, R. et al. Cell Cultures and Retroviral Particles From a Tumor of a Moray Eel. Mar. Biotechnol. 3 (Suppl 1), S196–S202 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-001-0042-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10126-001-0042-1