“…The number of insulin and IGF receptors in fish is regulated by the nutritional status so that it can be altered according to the physiological need (Planas et al, 2000). Reports are available on the levels of serum IGF-1 in different fish species such as chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Beckman et al, 2004a;b), coho salmon O. kisutch (Pierce et al, 2004;Beckman et al, 2004a;b), Atlantic salmon Salmo salar (Dyer et al, 2004;Shimizu et al, 2006), tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus (Uchida et al, 2003), gilthead seabream Sparus aurata (Pé rez-Sá nchez et al, 1995;Mingarro et al, 2002;Gómez-Requeni et al, 2004;2005), channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus (Silverstein et al, 2000;Li et al, 2004) and Atlantic cod Gadus morhua (Davie et al, 2007). Li et al (2014) used transgenic crucian carp, Carassius auratus as the first teleost model to study the IGF-1 over expression in-vivo.…”