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Health & Welfare
Predicting parasite outbreaks in fish farms through environmental DNA
This article presents the results of a study using environmental DNA methodology for the early detection and quantification of various pathogens in farmed barramundi, where the technique showed to be a powerful and novel tool to predict fish mortalities.