Published June 14, 2022 | Version June 2022
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A Mysterious Disease in Antarctic Fish

Creators

  • 1. University of Oregon

Description

While conducting research in Antarctica in 2018, scientists were surprised to capture many specimens of two species of fish that had massive skin tumors.

In this short graphic novel, “A mysterious disease in Antarctic fish“, Chloe DaMommio, John Postlethwait, and Thomas Desvignes take us on a scientific expedition to Antarctica aboard the US Antarctic Research Vessel Laurence M. Gould to capture those diseased fish, set sail to the isolated Palmer Station to sample them, then back to their laboratory in the States to identify the origin of this mysterious disease and its effects on the fish.

The graphic novel is available in English, Spanish, French, German, and Danish!

And to know more about the science behind the graphic novel, the research results are now published in open-access.

Notes

This material is based upon work supported by the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation under NSF grant number OPP-1947040. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Is supplement to
Journal article: 10.1016/j.isci. 2022.104588 (DOI)