Beyond the potential use of in vitro production of embryos (IVP) in breeding schemes,
embryos are also required for the establishment of new biotechnologies such as cloning and …

This paper reviews the technical bases of in vitro embryo production in small ruminants with
special attention to the results obtained by our group in Northeastern Brazil. The …

O objetivo nesta revisão é mostrar os principais avanços científicos obtidos na área da
reprodução animal e como estes podem afetar a eficiência reprodutiva e produtiva do …

Among all the transgenic mammalians produced so far, goats have represented an excellent
model of transgenesis when considering the factors such as the market demand for protein …

Numerous growth factors contribute to oocyte maturation and embryonic development in
vivo; however, only a few are understood. One such factor is epigen, a new member of the …

Cloning by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) still is challenging and inefficient.
Recently, the handmade cloning (HMC) procedures have been successfully applied to …

For a number of decades, attempts have been made to successfully produce transgenic
animals which have numerous applications in the biotechnology industry with the foremost …

It has been 30 years since the first transgenic mouse was generated and 26 years since the
first example of transferring the technology to livestock was published. While there was …

A new expression vector containing the 1,944 bp 5′-flanking regulatory region together
with exon 1 and intron 1 of the goat alpha-S1-casein gene (CSN1S1), the full-sized human …

Applying reproductive biotechnologies to female sheep and goats allows to improving
animal protein production, advancing scientific knowledge with the use of small ruminants …