Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Direct allele introgression into pure chicken breeds using Sire Dam Surrogate (SDS) mating

  • Maeve Ballantyne,
  • Mark Woodcock,
  • Dadakhalandar Doddamani,
  • Tuanjun Hu,
  • Lorna Taylor,
  • Rachel J. Hawken,
  • Mike J. McGrew

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20812-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chicken are a biological model and an important agricultural animal. Here, the authors demonstrate that pure breed genome edited chicks can be produced for any chicken breed by direct mating of sterile surrogate hosts carrying donor genome edited germ cells.