{"id":2816,"date":"2014-08-20T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:21:42","slug":"genetically-modified-salmon-reproduce-as-fast-as-wild-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/genetically-modified-salmon-reproduce-as-fast-as-wild-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetically-modified salmon reproduce as fast as wild-type<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Growth hormone (GH) transgenic salmon doesn\u2019t reproduce faster than wild-type salmon, but transgenic salmon can reproduce with wild-type fish, a new study shows.\u00a0<\/span>GH transgenic salmon contains a chinook salmon growth hormone gene fused to an ocean pout antifreeze gene which significantly accelerate its growth rates.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers reared salmon in large (350,000 L), semi-natural, seawater tanks designed to minimize effects of standard laboratory culture conditions, and found similar reproductive success in both wild-type and GH transgenic coho salmon.\u00a0Transgenic salmon can be produced on commercials-scale in Canada, but cannot be sold yet to consumers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105377\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0the journal\u00a0<em>PLoS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 18, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca\/sdb-bds\/profile-profil.do?id=7&amp;lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert H. Devlin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Fisheries and Oceans Canada<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth hormone (GH) transgenic salmon doesn\u2019t reproduce faster than wild-type salmon, but transgenic salmon can reproduce with wild-type fish, a new study shows.\u00a0GH transgenic salmon contains a chinook salmon growth hormone gene fused to an ocean pout antifreeze gene which significantly accelerate its growth rates. Researchers reared salmon in large (350,000 L), semi-natural, seawater tanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,170,1274,917,1778,719,909],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-biodiversity","tag-dna","tag-evolution","tag-fish","tag-food","tag-genetics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}