Table 1.

Myostatin gene expression in different adult fish tissues

Tissue	1 Zebrafish	2 Catfish	3 SeabreamMSTN1	4 Seabream MSTN-2	5 At salmon MSTN-1a/b	6 rb trout MSTN-1a/b	7 bk trout MSTN-1a/b	8 Tilapia
Brain	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Sk muscle	+	+	+	−	+	+	+	+
Gill	+	+	NS	NS	+	+	NS	+
Eye	+	+	+	+	+	NS	NS	+
Skin	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
GI tract	+	+	+	−	+	+	NS	+
Heart	+	+	+	−	+	+	NS	−
Spleen	NS	+	−	−	+	NS	NS	NS
Liver	+	+	−	−	−	+	NS	−
Swim bladder	NS	+	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Kidney	+	+	+	−	−	+	NS	−
Ovaries	+	NS	−	+	+	+	+	+
Testis	+	NS	−	+	+	+	NS	+
Adipose	NS	NS	+	−	NS	NS	NS	NS

bk, brook; rb, rainbow; At, Atlantic; Sk, skeletal; GI, gastrointestinal; +, detected; −, not detected; NS, not sampled;

¹Amali et al., 2004

²Kocabas et al., 2002

³Maccatrozzo et al., 2001a

⁴Maccatrozzo et al., 2001b

⁵Ostbye et al., 2001

⁶Rescan et al., 2001

⁷Roberts and Goetz, 2003

⁸Rodgers et al., 2001