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Swine gene banking: a quality control perspective on collection, and analysis of samples for a national repository.
Theriogenology - 1 Nov 2008
Purdy Phillip H
Abstract excerpt
The National Animal Germplasm Program (NAGP) is developing a national repository for germplasm (semen, oocytes, embryos, blood, DNA, tissue) for all agricultural species in the US. Currently, the swine collection consists of 127,479 samples from 886 boars representing 20 major, minor and composite populations. Cryopreservation per se is not an impediment to program success. Rather, the greatest difficulties...
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