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Reproduction Biotechnology in Cattle

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Cattle are the most important domestic ungulate livestock species used for food- and agriculture-based economic gains worldwide. Several breeds of cattle are domesticated for produce milk, meat, skin, draught power, and manure. Reproduction biotechniques entailing in vitro production of embryos, cryopreservation, sperm sexing, stem cell biology, and genetic engineering to produce value-added products and nuclear transfer cloning are now used in cattle.

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  • Cattle contribute to milk, meat, manure and skin, and draught power

  • Genetic engineering and assisted reproduction techniques have made use of cattle to produce recombinant therapeutics.

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  1. ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Regional Station, Palampur, India

    Birbal Singh & Gorakh Mal

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

    Sanjeev K. Gautam

  3. Department of Animal Biotechnology, ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal, Haryana, India

    Manishi Mukesh

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Singh, B., Mal, G., Gautam, S.K., Mukesh, M. (2019). Reproduction Biotechnology in Cattle. In: Advances in Animal Biotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21309-1_14

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