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Rapid growth cost in “all-fish” growth hormone gene transgenic carp: Reduced critical swimming speed

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Evidence has accumulated that there is a trade-off between benefits and costs associated with rapid growth. A trade-off between growth rates and critical swimming speed (U crit) had been also reported to be common in teleost fish. We hypothesize that growth acceleration in the F3 generation of “all-fish” growth hormone gene (GH) transgenic common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) would reduce the swimming abilities. Growth and swimming performance between transgenic fish and non-transgenic controls were compared. The results showed that transgenic fish had a mean body weight 1.4–1.9-fold heavier, and a mean specific growth rate (SGR) value 6%–10% higher than the controls. Transgenic fish, however, had a mean absolute U crit (cm/s) value 22% or mean relative U crit (BL/s) value 24% lower than the controls. It suggested that fast-growing “all-fish” GH-transgenic carp were inferior swimmers. It is also supported that there was a trade-off between growth rates and swimming performance, i.e. faster-growing individuals had lower critical swimming speed.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Li DeLiang, Fu CuiZhang, Hu Wei, Zhong Shan, Wang YaPing & Zhu ZuoYan

  2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Li DeLiang

  3. Department of Genetics, Basic Medical School of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Zhong Shan

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30400056 and 30130050), the Development Plan of the State Key Fundamental Research of China (Grant No. 2001CB109006) and the ‘863’ High Technology Project (Grant No. 2004AA213120)

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Li, D., Fu, C., Hu, W. et al. Rapid growth cost in “all-fish” growth hormone gene transgenic carp: Reduced critical swimming speed. CHINESE SCI BULL 52, 1501–1506 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-007-0217-x

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