Forensic identification of severely degraded Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) tissues

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Published in:Investigative Genetics
Main Authors: Dalvin, Sussie Trine, Glover, Kevin A., Sørvik, Anne Grete Eide, Seliussen, Bjørghild Breistein, Taggart, John B.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2010
Subjects:
fish farming
fiskeoppdrett
genetics
genetikk
atlantic salmon
atlantisk laks
rainbow trout
regnbueørret
VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Basic biosciences: 470::Genetics and genomics: 474
VDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Fisheries science: 920::Aquaculture: 922
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11250/108955
https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-2223-1-12
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Summary:© 2010 Dalvin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Aquaculture is a globally important and rapidly growing industry. It contributes positively to the economy and sustainability of coastal communities, but it is not without regulatory challenges. These challenges are diverse, and may include identification of fish discarded in an illegal manner, biological discharge from fish ensilage tanks, and partially destroyed or processed tissues. Robust genetic tools are required by management authorities to address these challenges. In this paper, we describe nine species-specific primer sets amplifying very short DNA fragments within the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome c oxidase (COI) gene, which were designed to permit diagnostic identification of degraded DNA from two of the most commonly farmed salmonids in Europe and North America.

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