[AquaticLife] Glo-fish

March 15, 2008 @ 7:19 pm · Filed under Philippines Internet Koi Society

Remember that everything from that site is spun to make everything look hunky-dory. Do a Google Scholar search for independent and/or peer reviewed articles. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=glofish&hl=en&lr= You’ll have to look through many links to find some that you can actually read as most of them require fee based subscriptions. Here’s some where the abstract of the article is available for free.
Even Amanda referred to these glofish as GMO’s and I wasn’t quite sure what GMO stood for until reading some of these articles. GMO = Genetically Modified Organism.
http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v19/19HarvJLTech413.pdf (30 page Harvard Article)(A snip from this article states, “…At least one state — California — banned GloFish™ sales, noting that the GloFish™ researchers used genetic engineering on fish for frivolous purposes, and the risks were not all identified.40…”)
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1299107 (another long article which has this snip, “…Opponents, even while acknowledging this argument, believe that GM fish nevertheless pose a serious threat to wildlife. If GM fish escaped from fish farms, they could further upset the oceans’ delicate ecology, causing ecological disruption or species extinction. Transgenes that increase cold-, salt- or heat-tolerance could allow GM fish to expand into new territories. GM fish with higher disease resistance and better use of nutrients could outcompete wild relatives and change predator–prey relationships, and they could therefore occupy new ecological niches where wild species would usually not survive. Finally, by mating with wild fish, escaped GM fish could spread the transgene among the wild population, which could cause conflicting effects on mating success, viability in natural habitats and other fitness factors required for the species to survive.
….no matter which transgene is used, the main benefit would still be to the native species—provided we can keep our farmed fish from escaping—as any improvements in aquaculture would take the pressure away from ocean fisheries…”
http://www.springerlink.com/content/547138tk464j6157/
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v8111648354828p6/ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=740386
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01139.x
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v22/n1/full/nbt0104-1.html
http://www.springerlink.com/content/6517m60l461342t5/
http://afs.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1577%2FT04-197.1&ct=1
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v22/n1/full/nbt0104-11.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T94-4JBB31G-3&_user=4420034&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000063005&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4420034&md5=0871cab93a5402f11214a511ffaeef92
Good reading!
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