Links:

The Atlantic Salmon Federation
Everything you wanted to know about salmon.

Wild Atlantic Salmon (Video) (ASF, 2003)
Swimming salmon.

Muir and Howard's Trojan Gene Article

The Center for Food Safety's 'Campaign on Genetically Engineered Fish'
Read scientific articles and newspaper stories, types of GM fish and other marine species, as well as patents relating to marine GM species.

Glossary of Terms:

Aquaculture: the cultivation of the natural produce of water (as fish or shellfish)(Marriam-Webster, 2004).

Cassette: a section of a gene.

Gene: basic unit of biological information; specific segment of DNA in a discrete region of a chromosome that serves as a unit of function by encoding for a particular RNA protein (Hartwell, L.H. et al., 2004).

Genome: the sum of the total genetic information in a particular cell of organism (Hartwell, L.H. et al., 2004).

Plasmids: small circles of double-stranded DNA that can replicate in bacterial cells independently of the bacterial chromosome (Hartwell, L.H. et al., 2004).

Promoters: DNA sequence near the beginning of genes that signal RNA polymerase where to begin transcription (Hartwell, L.H. et al., 2004).

(NOTE: Cited definitions are direct quotations.)

References:

Atlantic Salmon Federation(A). "Atlantic Salmon Federation." 2003. 2/11/2004 <http://www.asf.ca/video/miramichi/2003shortclips.html>

Atlantic Salmon Federation. "The Atlantic Salmon." 2002(A). 2/11/2004 <http://www.asf.ca/Overall/atlsalm.html>

Atlantic Salmon Federation. "Taxonomy of Atlantic Salmon." 2002(B). 2/11/2004 <http://www.asf.ca/Overall/taxonomy.html>

Biotechnology Industry Organization. "5 Myths About Transgenic Salmon." 2004. 2/6/2004 <http://www.bio.org/animals/salmonmyths.asp>

Greenpeace. “EU grants license for GM fish.” 11/12/2001. 2/11/2004 <http://members.sitegadgets.com/fissta/board/48.html >

Hartwell, L.H., Hood, L., Goldberg, M.L., Reynolds, A.E., Silver, L.M., and Veres, R.C. (2004). Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, Second Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.).

Hedrick, P.W. (2001) Invasion of transgenes from salmon or other genetically modified organisms into natural populations. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58, 841-844.

ISEES. "Issue One: February 2003 Marine GEOs: Products in the Pipeline." 8/18/2003. 2/8/2004 <http://www.fw.umn.edu/isees/MarineBrief/1/brief1.htm>

Malecek, Michal. “KATALOG akvarijních ryb C.” 2003. 2/11/2004 <http://www.miga.cz/rybyc.htm>

Marriam-Webster. "Marriam-Webster Online Dictionary." 2004. 2/11/2004 <http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=aquaculture&x=12&y=5>

Matheson, John. "Will Transgenic Fish be the First AG-Biotech Food-Producing Animals?" 1999. 2/6/2004 <http://www.fda.gov/cvm/index/fdavet/1999/may.html#transgenics>

Muir, W.M., Howard, R.D. (1999) Possible ecological risks of transgenic organism release when transgenes affect mating success: Sexual selection and the Trojan gene hypothesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 96, 13853-13856.

Zhu, Z., G. Li, L. He and S. Chen. (1985) Novel gene transfer into the fertilized eggs of gold fish (Carassius auratus L. 1758). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 1(1), 31-34.

This website was created by Christopher Wrobleski as part of a Davidson College biology course.