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ArticleNature2026

Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer.

Emily E Curd, Samuel F M Hart, James Lubkowitz, Kirsten M Tracy, Lucas Milazzo, Matthew Bodnar, Tom Jones, Mark J Henderson, Peter Emerson, Julie A Dragon

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Emily E Curd *Vermont Biomedical Research Network, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0336-6852
Samuel F M Hart *Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5068-2199
James LubkowitzVermont Biomedical Research Network, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-0764-6388
Kirsten M TracyVermont Integrative Genomics Resource, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Lucas MilazzoVermont Biomedical Research Network, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2149-7499
Matthew BodnarVermont Fish and Wildlife Department, Montpelier, VT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-3977-3931
Tom JonesVermont Fish and Wildlife Department, Montpelier, VT, USA.
Mark J HendersonUS Geological Survey, Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Peter EmersonVermont Fish and Wildlife Department, Montpelier, VT, USA.
Julie A DragonVermont Biomedical Research Network, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. julie.dragon@med.uvm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8031-5381

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since 2012, brown bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus) in a lake that spans Vermont, USA, and Quebec, Canada, have shown a high rate of melanomas, suggesting a causal contaminant or contagion

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CatfishesFish DiseasesMelanomaAnimalsClone CellsFemaleMale

Identifiers

PMID42486978
PMCPMC13538035

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