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New advances in cloning and their potential impact on genetic variation in livestock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

J. A. Woolliams  and
I. Wilmut
J. A. Woolliams
Affiliation:
Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS
I. Wilmut
Affiliation:
Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS
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Abstract

Cloning has advanced through the recent demonstrations that it is feasible to produce, in principle and with significant effort, an unlimited number of individuals of identical genotype from differentiated cell lines that have been frozen and thawed. These advances have been based upon understanding the importance of interactions between the stage of the cell cycle of both the oocyte and donor cell for the success of the nuclear transfer. Whilst the impact of the biological advance is immense for biomedicai applications, the significance is less clear for livestock breeding. In our view the scientific issues for breeding programmes lie in whether clones can increase genetic progress without a cost to biodiversity. Biodiversity within a species may be categorized as: (i) betvjeen-breed variation; (ix) genetic variation among parents within breeds; (iii) genetic variation among individuals within a farm; and (iv) allelic variation within an individual. In the face of a rapid global decline in breed diversity, cloning, in particular cloning of adults, may be an important route to protect biodiversity since it may allow far more genetic variation to be made available for new breed development in the future than is practicable at present. For variation among parents, the judicious use of clones may give significantly faster rates of progress without increasing the rate of loss of genetic variation and furthermore can help improve traits associated with health and welfare which are at present less tractable than, say, milk yield. Local diversity within a farm may be greatly affected if cloning is utilized to disseminate genetic progress widely and more answers are required on the importance of genetic variation within any one locality either in buffering diseases or ameliorating other management problems. Experience from clonal forestry can provide some indications but now there are models capable of answering this question directly in livestock. Allelic variation within individuals per se is not generally advantageous but at loci where it is identified to he beneficial, the use of cloning may exploit it more widely.

Keywords

biodiversitycloninggenetic variationinbreedingrisk
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Research Article
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Animal Science , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , March 1999 , pp. 245 - 256
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1999

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