title: Cloning advances and challenges for conservation.
abstract: 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.
authors: Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92112-0551, USA. oryder@ucsd.edu
authors: Oliver A
authors: OA
authors: Ryder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000235:genetics; D018070:Biological Specimen Banks; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D005788:Gene Pool; D014644:Genetic Variation; D012756:Sheep / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000235:genetics