OMIA:002737-1606681 : Fluorescent protein, transgenic in Puntigrus tetrazona (Sumatra barb)

In other species: Japanese medaka , chicken , crab-eating macaque , pig , taurine cattle , goat , golden hamster , black tetra , Japanese quail , Japanese silver crucian carp , Siamese fighting fish , rainbow sharkminnow

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: yes

Disease-related: no

Key variant known: no

Cross-species summary: This phene includes references to studies involving gene edited or genetically modified organisms (GMO).

Species-specific name: GloFish

Genetic engineering: Yes - variants have been created artificially, e.g. by genetic engineering or gene editing
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

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Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2025). OMIA:002737-1606681: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

2025 Lindstrom, A., Volkoff, H. :
Endocrine regulation of feeding in non-transgenic and transgenic fluorescent orange tiger barb (Puntigrus tetrazona). Gen Comp Endocrinol 367:114730, 2025. Pubmed reference: 40228648. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2025.114730.
2023 Ali, K., Dugan, S. :
Indirect human health risk assessment of the GloFish Electric Green, GloFish Starfire Red, GloFish Sunburst Orange, and the GloFish Galactic Purple Barbs (Puntigrus tetrazona), for use as ornamental aquarium fish in Canada. In: DFO (Ed.), Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2023/2030. , 2023.
2021 Wang, Y, Hamid, N, Jia, PP, Pei, DS :
A comprehensive review on genetically modified fish: key techniques, applications and future prospects. Rev. Aquacult. 13:1635-1660, 2021. DOI: 10.1111/raq.12538.
2020 Debode, F., Marien, A., Ledoux, Q., Janssen, E., Ancion, C., Berben, G. :
Detection of ornamental transgenic fish by real-time PCR and fluorescence microscopy. Transgenic Res 29:283-294, 2020. Pubmed reference: 32350691. DOI: 10.1007/s11248-020-00197-9.

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