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Research within the APPIfish team can rely on the following equipment:

• The bacteriology laboratory with a "forward march" type of operation, to receive biological material from field campaigns,
• The molecular biology platform shared with other research units using, among other things, thermal cyclers and the pulsed field electrophoresis apparatus.
• The aquaculture station (in fresh water) having a surface area of 445m² and including among others :
  • 3 rooms of maintenance of fishes including a room of acclimatization,
  • 2 experiment rooms for fish of all sizes include 12 aquariums of 40 liters for one and 22 tanks of 200 liters for the other.

Two strain libraries:

• 1 field strain library with more than 1200 collected strains,
• 1 reference strain library comprising 60 reference strains.