Chronic kidney disease (CKD) poses a significant global health burden, necessitating robust animal models for mechanistic studies and drug discovery. Zebrafish offers unique advantages as a powerful models in kidney disease, including high‐throughput compatibility, optical transparency, and significant genetic and nephron homology with both humans and farmed teleosts. However, challenges, such as the species' potent regenerati...

The routine generation of species distribution data at scale remains a challenge. We used aquatic environmental DNA metabarcoding to sample vertebrate species across the 30,000 km 2 Gaoligongshan region along the China–Myanmar border. In just 56 calendar days (33 researcher‐field‐days + 69 researcher‐lab‐days), we detected 389 vertebrate species, of which 35 are Red‐Listed. We introduce the ‘eDNA‐aware’ OccPlus occupancy model...