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Transgenic tilapia and the tilapia genome.
Gene - 7 Aug 2002
Maclean N, Rahman M A, Sohm F, Hwang G, Iyengar A, Ayad H, Smith A, Farahmand H
Abstract excerpt
The tilapia fish (Oreochromis niloticus) has an important place in the aquaculture of the developing world. It is also a very useful laboratory animal, and readily lends itself to the transgenic technology. Through the use of reporter genes, a range of potential gene promoters have been tested in tilapia, both through transient and stable expression of the reporter construct. Using the transgenic technology,...
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