Why clone horses and mules?

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 32-36

  White, Kenneth L ^a   Woods, Gordon L ^e   Vanderwall, Dirk K ^b   Li, Guan Peng ^c,d   Sessions, Benjamin R ^e   Bunch, Thomas D ^a,e  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Dept of Embryo Biol and Cytogenet ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TYPE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE TRANSFER; HORSE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; OOCYTE MATURATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CLONING, ORGANISM; EQUIDAE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; HORSES;

EID: 3042724760     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2004.1310971     Document Type: Review

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