A Novel Discipline in Embryology: Animal Embryo Breeding
The modern animal biotechnologies, such as animal cloning, transgenesis, sex determination, stem cells, designing new livestock, must be performed on animal gametes including sperm and oocytes, and embryos based on embryology theory.Currently, some key biotechnologies in embryology have become the most powerful tool for animal scientists and breeders to improve genetic construction of animal herds.Here, authors put forward a new concept of Animal Embryo Breeding Science to describe this discipline formation,development, and application in animal genetic improvement and breeding.The relationship of embryo breeding with other disciplines has been profiled.Thus, animal scientists and breeders can easily understand and apply embryo breeding theory and related key techniques to accelerate animal improvement speed, to modify genetic construction of animal population, and to design and create new animal individual or breed.
Discipline Embryo breeding Biotechnology Livestock
Bin Wu Linsen Zan Fusheng Quan Hai Wang
Arizona Center for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Tucson, Arizona, USA 85712;Yunnan Jiu College of Animal Science and Technology, National Beef Cattle Improvement Center College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
国内会议
陕西杨凌
英文
9-19
2015-11-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）