Initial technologies for creating transgenic swine only permitted random integration of the
construct. However, by combining the technology for homologous recombination in fetal …

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has become the method of choice to overcome male
infertility when all other forms of assisted fertilization have failed. Animals in which ICSI has …

Since the pig is not only an important farm animal, but also a model animal for biomedical
applications, the development of reproductive technologies in this species has been very …

We investigated whether a genomic demethylation process occurs in pig preimplantation
embryos produced by either normal fertilization or somatic cell nuclear transfer. The …

Early embryonic cleavages are mostly regulated by maternal components then control of
development progressively depends on newly synthesized zygotic products. The timing of …

Excellent fertility and prolificacy have been reported after non-surgical deep uterine transfers
of fresh in vivo-derived porcine embryos. Unfortunately, when this technology is used with …

Although techniques for in vitro production of porcine embryos have proceeded very rapidly
during the past decade, polyspermic penetration still remains a persistent obstacle to …

This article summarizes recent progress in reproductive biotechnology in swine with special
reference to in vitro production of embryos, generation of identical multiples, and transgenic …

Crossbreeding programmes in pigs exploit between breed complementarity of additive
genetic effects and heterosis generated by non-additive genetic effects. Within breed …

Progress in animal nutrition, reproduction, quantitative genetics, and the development of
molecular genetics, proteomics, and functional genomics open new perspectives for the …