Cloning advances and challenges for conservation.
Although controversy surrounds cloning efforts, the cloning of animals to assist efforts to preserve genetic variation in support of endangered species conservation efforts has attracted serious interest. A recent report by Loi et al. describing the cloning of a mouflon (a species of wild sheep) in a domestic sheep surrogate points to potential conservation opportunities and additional challenges in the evaluation of appropriate technologies for present and future efforts to conserve gene pools of endangered species.
Ryder
Oliver A
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Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92112-0551, USA. oryder@ucsd.edu
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