Retrospect and prospect of transgenic fish breeding in China.

Author: Yaping WANG ¹ ; Libo HE ¹
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1. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: biotechnology; fish breeding; transgenic fish
MeSH: Animals; Animals, Genetically Modified; Breeding; China; Fishes
From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2016;32(7):851-860
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: The first transgenic fish was generated in China about 30 years ago. Since then, considerable progress has been achieved for farmed fishes breeding with improvement of target traits of growth, disease resistance, stress tolerance, and nutrition qualities. Up to now, the technology of transgenic fish breeding is almost mature and the biosafety assessment is established. In this review, a successful example of the fast-growing transgenic common carp was presented and the foreground of transgenic fish breeding was also discussed and prospected.