Primordial germ cell-mediated chimera technology produces viable pure-line houbara bustard offspring: Potential for repopulating an endangered species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Wernery, Ulrich ^a   Liu, Chunhai ^a   Baskar, Vijay ^a   Guerineche, Zhor ^a   Khazanehdari, Kamal A ^a   Saleem, Shazia ^a   Kinne, Jörg ^a   Wernery, Renate ^a   Griffin, Darren K ^b   Chang, Il Kuk ^a  

^a CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRD; BREEDING METHOD; BREEDING SUCCESS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GONAD; HATCHING; HOUBARA BUSTARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROGENY; ROOSTER; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPERM; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CHICKEN; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GERM CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS; TIME;

AVES; CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA; GALLUS GALLUS; OTIDIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; SEMEN; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650852249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015824     Document Type: Article

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