Patent ID: 8153858

Claim:
A method of providing transgenic fish to the ornamental fish market, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a transgenic fish comprising one or more fluorescence genes that are positioned under the control of a ubiquitous fish promoter such that said fish ubiquitously expresses fluorescent protein encoded by said fluorescence gene(s), wherein said fish visually exhibits expression of fluorescent protein(s) upon exposure to sunlight, wherein the transgenic fish have been produced from one or more transgenic lines by a method comprising the steps of: (i) obtaining transgenic fish embryos or fry comprising one or more stably integrated fluorescence genes under the control of a ubiquitous fish promoter, wherein the transgenic fish embryos or fry ubiquitously express one or more fluorescent proteins encoded by the one or more fluorescence genes; (ii) selecting one or more of said transgenic fish embryos or fry by exposing the embryos or fry to a light source; (iii) producing one or more transgenic lines of fish from said one or more selected embryos or fry; and (b) distributing said transgenic fish to the ornamental fish market.