Genetic engineering applications in animal breeding

This paper discusses the use of genetic engineering applications in animal breeding, including a description of the methods, their potential and current uses and ethical issues. Genetic engineering is the name of a group of techniques used to identify, replicate, modify and transfer the genetic mate...

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Autor principal:	Montaldo,Hugo H.
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso 2006
Materias:	Adult mammalian cloning biotechnology gene mapping GMOS MAS QTL transgenics
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-345820060002000102006-12-11Genetic engineering applications in animal breedingMontaldo,Hugo H. Adult mammalian cloning biotechnology gene mapping GMOS MAS QTL transgenics This paper discusses the use of genetic engineering applications in animal breeding, including a description of the methods, their potential and current uses and ethical issues. Genetic engineering is the name of a group of techniques used to identify, replicate, modify and transfer the genetic material of cells, tissues or complete organisms. Important applications of genetic engineering in animal breeding are: 1) Marker-assisted selection (MAS). The objective of this technology is to increase disease resistance, productivity and product quality in economically important animals by adding information of DNA markers to phenotypes and genealogies for selection decisions. 2) Transgenesis, the direct transfer of specific genes/alleles between individuals, species, or even Kingdoms, in order to change their phenotypic expression in the recipients. Compared to the 'traditional' improvement techniques based on phenotypic information only, these gene-by-gene techniques allow theoretically a more complete management of animal genomes for animal breeding. In spite of high expectations and new technical developments, its actual efficiency is not always high, as they require a thorough knowledge of functional genomics, and pose additional technical, economical and ethical problems. The possible role for cloning adult animals in breeding is also discussed.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoElectronic Journal of Biotechnology v.9 n.2 20062006-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582006000200010en
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spellingShingle	Adult mammalian cloning biotechnology gene mapping GMOS MAS QTL transgenics Montaldo,Hugo H. Genetic engineering applications in animal breeding
description	This paper discusses the use of genetic engineering applications in animal breeding, including a description of the methods, their potential and current uses and ethical issues. Genetic engineering is the name of a group of techniques used to identify, replicate, modify and transfer the genetic material of cells, tissues or complete organisms. Important applications of genetic engineering in animal breeding are: 1) Marker-assisted selection (MAS). The objective of this technology is to increase disease resistance, productivity and product quality in economically important animals by adding information of DNA markers to phenotypes and genealogies for selection decisions. 2) Transgenesis, the direct transfer of specific genes/alleles between individuals, species, or even Kingdoms, in order to change their phenotypic expression in the recipients. Compared to the 'traditional' improvement techniques based on phenotypic information only, these gene-by-gene techniques allow theoretically a more complete management of animal genomes for animal breeding. In spite of high expectations and new technical developments, its actual efficiency is not always high, as they require a thorough knowledge of functional genomics, and pose additional technical, economical and ethical problems. The possible role for cloning adult animals in breeding is also discussed.
author	Montaldo,Hugo H.
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title	Genetic engineering applications in animal breeding
title_short	Genetic engineering applications in animal breeding
title_full	Genetic engineering applications in animal breeding
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publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
publishDate	2006
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Genetic engineering applications in animal breeding

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