The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
UF Research recently featured the Sea Turtle Hospital in their magazine Explore. The article discusses fibropapillomatosis and how the viral disease is affecting sea turtles and by using genetic sequencing, how Whitney Laboratory biologist David Duffy hopes to address the genetic causes of the fibropapilloma tumors and perhaps spare the turtles rounds of surgery by identifying drug therapies that can aid recovery.
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Image source: Explore Magazine