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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maeve Ballantyne, Mark Woodcock, Dadakhalandar Doddamani, Tuanjun Hu, Lorna Taylor, Rachel J. Hawken, Mike J. McGrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20812-x