Development of more muscular trout could boost commercial aquaculture
A 10-year effort has finally created pumped-up fish for commercial aquaculture Rainbow trout with six-pack abs and burly shoulders have emerged from a University of Rhode Island laboratory, and could someday find their way to humans' dinner tables. That's assuming diners don't panic at the sight of the muscular ichthyoid awaiting their knives and forks. The bodybuilder stature of the trout comes from turning off myostatin, a protein that normally slows muscle growth. Researchers had known of a natural myostatin mutation that allowed for 20 to 25 percent more muscle growth in Belgian blue cattle, but did not know if the same would apply to the different mechanism of muscle growth in fish. Terry Bradley, a fisheries and aquaculture expert at the University of Rhode Island, worked with a group of grad students for 500 hours to inject 20,000 rainbow trout eggs with different DNA snippets designed to block myostatin. About 300 eggs ended up carrying the gene for more muscle growth, and eventually pr
Development of more muscular trout could boost commercial aquaculture
A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and ...
Wed 10 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
Scientist Develops Trout With Six-Pack Abs, Fri 12 Mar 10 from Laboratory Equipment
Development of more muscular trout could boost commercial aquaculture, Wed 10 Mar 10 from ScienceDaily
Development of more muscular trout could boost commercial aquaculture, Wed 10 Mar 10 from e! Science News
Featured - Inhibition of myostatin results in fish with 'six-pack abs', Wed 10 Mar 10 from Labspaces.net
Development of more muscular trout could boost commercial aquaculture, Wed 10 Mar 10 from Science Blog
Meet Arnie, the Terminator Trout with the physique of a body-builder
The mutant fish is the result of a decade-long effort by Terry Bradley, a professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island.
Fri 12 Mar 10 from Daily Mail
Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate
A 10-year effort has finally created pumped-up fish for commercial aquaculture Rainbow trout with six-pack abs and burly shoulders have emerged from a University of Rhode Island laboratory, ...
Wed 10 Mar 10 from Popular Science
More Muscular Trout Could Boost Commercial Aquaculture
Inhibition of myostatin results in fish with 'six-pack abs'A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded ...
Wed 10 Mar 10 from RedOrbit
- Pages: 1
Bookmark
