“…A number of cell lines have been developed and characterized from clariid fish, including the G1B cell line from the gill tissue of C. batrachus (Noga & Hartmann, ), the catfish kidney (CFK) cell line from C. batrachus (Lio‐Po et al ., ), the ICF cell line derived from the fin tissue of walking catfish, C. batrachus (Babu et al ., ), and the testis‐originated cell line from C. magur (previously C. batrachus ) (Singh et al ., ) for the isolation of viruses affecting catfish and analysing pesticide toxicity. Normally, in primary cell culture, cell populations experience a selection process due to factors such as damage to the cell during isolation and competition between different cells for nutrients or substrates, and more than one cell type is ultimately present in a cell line (Freshney, ).…”