Also: AquAdvantage salmon, GloFish, GM animals, fluorescent zebrafish
Animals carrying added genes. AquAdvantage salmon grows faster using a growth hormone gene and was the first GM animal approved as food in the US (2015). GloFish are fluorescent pet fish developed from research zebrafish.
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Choe and colleagues reviewed transgenic fluorescent zebrafish lines and their impact on biomedical research; such lines are the origin of GloFish pets.
As reported in: Choe, Choi, Kee et al. (2021). Transgenic fluorescent zebrafish lines that have revolutionized biomedical research. Laboratory Animal Research. doi:10.1186/s42826-021-00103-2
Du and colleagues showed an "all fish" growth hormone gene construct boosted growth in Atlantic salmon, the basis of AquAdvantage salmon.
Built / tested: transgenic salmon
As reported in: Du, Gong, Fletcher et al. (1992). Growth Enhancement in Transgenic Atlantic Salmon by the Use of an “All Fish” Chimeric Growth Hormone Gene Construct. Nature Biotechnology. doi:10.1038/nbt0292-176
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Clifford described AquAdvantage salmon as a pioneering biotechnology application in fish farming.
Built / tested: AquAdvantage salmon
As reported in: Clifford (2014). AquAdvantage® Salmon - a pioneering application of biotechnology in aquaculture. BMC Proceedings. doi:10.1186/1753-6561-8-s4-o31