Bear in mind that bioluminescence is not a single gene, but a bunch of them. The pVIB plasmid, which we use for bacteria transformation to get chemiluminescent bacteria, is over 10kb! You need the genes to make luciferin, the substrate, and the gene for luciferase, the enzyme. You could just use the luciferase gene but you would have to figure out a way to get luciferin into the fish- you can't just add it to the Petri dish as in a bacterial experiment. And it's not cheap.
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