Cloning the mammoth: A complicated task or just a dream?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 753, Issue , 2014, Pages 489-502

  Loi, Pasqualino ^a   Saragusty, Joseph ^b   Ptak, Grazyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloning; Elephant; Mammoth; Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CARE; BIOETHICS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ELEPHANT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOSTER CARE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERSPECIFIC SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER; MAMMOTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL THERAPY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTERSPECIFIC SOMATIC CELLS NUCLEAR TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLICATION; SOMATIC CELL;

EID: 84958966792     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-820-2_19     Document Type: Review

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