Re: red glofish,
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first, when are blue, cyan, green, and yellow fluorescent
Danio going to be available commercially? Skeletal muscle expression of green and yellow fluorescent proteins were published in the same paper as the red fish.
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Second, did the genetic engineers who made the glofish talk to marketers? Once a breeding pair of zebrafish has been sold, the only items left to sell are food, lights, filters, and cleaning products. Selling firefly and/or
Renilla luciferase-expressing fish would produce lots of money by selling glofood: luciferin or coelenterazine (plus, the value of the food outweighs the fish by orders of magnitude).