Glo fish have escaped.

[Stan510]

Read all about it.

Science | AAAS

www.science.org

 

[GaryE]

Asian danios in a South American habitat... even if it weren't for them being GMO it would be a shame. Hopefully, they won't outcompete and drive anything local to extinction. Maybe they'll die off themselves, although the article suggests that isn't in the cards.
We are destructive creatures...

 

[Rocky998]

Read all about it.

Science | AAAS

www.science.org

Oh my goooooood.... Now we can have wild caught ones I guess

 

[Oblio]

I suppose Glofish will be on the list of dangerous/illegal species in the latest Bill making it's way through the US Senate. If it then passes, I will be a Fish Felon.

I really like my Glofish Tetras (Black Skirts), they have been thriving and growing nicely. They are on sale right now and I plan to pick up several more to ramp up the shoal size a bit in my community tank.

 

[OliveFish05]

This feels like/reminds me of Jurassic World...

 

[Rocky998]

This feels like/reminds me of Jurassic World...

Almost... I could see why

 

[Oblio]

“This is serious,” says ecologist Jean Vitule at the Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba. Vitule, who was not part of the research, says the ecological impacts are unpredictable. He worries, for example, that the fluorescence-endowing genes from the escapees could end up being introduced in native fish with detrimental effects, perhaps making them more visible to predators. “It’s like a shot in the dark,” he says.

I'm an engineer, not a biologist but ...

Outside of biomes where there are no natural predators, would not natural selection cull the offspring that are easy prey due to their visibility? Eventually the gene would just fade away and the population without the gene would continue to flourish.

Yes, I can see that this might not be as advantageous as having an undiluted gene pool, but would this be necessarily a disaster for the non-Glo population?