Transgenic fish resistant to infectious diseases, their risk and prevention of escape into the environment and future candidate genes for disease transgene manipulation

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-161

  Dunham, Rex A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease resistance; Environment; Gene expression; Pleiotropic effects; Sterilization; Transgenic fish

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; BETA ACTIN; BETA CHEMOKINE; CECROPIN B; CERULOPLASMIN; COAT PROTEIN; CXCL14 CHEMOKINE; FERRITIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOPEXIN; LACTOFERRIN; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3BETA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; TRANSFERRIN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; AEROMONAS; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; COLD TOLERANCE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FISH; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS HEMATOPOIETIC NECROSIS VIRUS; INFECTIOUS PANCREATIC NECROSIS VIRUS; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RAINBOW TROUT; RHABDOVIRUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENICS; VIRAL HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA VIRUS; VIRUS RESISTANCE; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AQUACULTURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY, INNATE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 58849144411     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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