transgenic zebra fish
Nicholas Weaver
nweaver at CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Mon Mar 4 13:50:28 EST 2002
In article <a605tp$jbj$1 at mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>,
Robert Slattery <slatteryr at msn.com> wrote:
>At a seminar I attended 2 years ago a project was discussed
>involving the transfer of a bioluminescence gene from a jellyfish to
>a zebra danio. I have been unable to find more info. Can anyone
>help?
It's probably NOT bioluminescent, but GFP (Green Flourescent
Protein).
They have a red variation on GFP which flouresces in blue light (so
it looks like it glows under normal light).
-- Nicholas C. Weaver
nweaver at cs.berkeley.edu
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