“…Fish-cell lines have proven to be powerful tools in fish biological and pathological research, since the establishment of the RTG-2 continuous gonad cell line from O. mykiss (Wolf & Quimby, 1962). They can provide important in vitro systems for investigations in fish immunology (Clem et al, 1996;Goswami et al, 2012), toxicology (Papis et al, 2011;Altay et al, 2012), endocrinology (Aluru & Vijayan, 2009;Thomas, 2012), virology (Ruiz et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2012), functional genomics (Laing & Hansen, 2011), physiology (Tafalla et al, 2006), cytophysiology (Maclean, 2011), genetic regulation (Castro et al, 2010;Holopainen et al, 2012) and carcinogenesis (Salinas et al, 2008). To date, however, most fish hepatocyte lines have been used for fish toxicology and immunology study, very few for research on lipid metabolism.…”