Cloning of endangered mammalian species: any progress?

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 195-200

  Loi, Pasqualino ^a   Galli, Cesare ^b   Ptak, Grazyna ^a  

^a Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences ^*  (Italy)

^b Laboratorio di Tecnologie della Riproduzione   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELLS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALS;

CLONED EMBRYOS; HETEROPLASMY; OOCYTES;

CLONING;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIGENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROPLASMY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34247128696     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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