Dear friends,
I've been reading about dolly the sheep. It was interesting about how epigenetics changes occured during so called "zygote" development. Therefore I wonder if there is a work like using donkey's DNA and inject into horse female. Normally if they mate, mule is borning and it has lack of offspring. What would you think about new born with this injection? I know their # of chrms are different. What could we speculate about it ?
Thanks in advance
it''s been done! the answer depends on the combination of animals used. While a viable offspring is unlikely, some development does occur.
http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909(07)00226-3?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1934590907002263%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0014805
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrd.10320/abstract
http://www.biolreprod.org/content/60/6/1496
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Thank you very much indeed. These articles could answer my further questions very effectively.
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