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The improbability of irradiated spermatozoa as gene transfer vectors in chickens

✍ Scribed by R. N. Shoffner; J. S. Otis; L. A. Snyder; K. S. Guise

Publisher
Springer
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
631 KB
Volume
80
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-5752

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✦ Synopsis

It is concluded that chromatin fragments derived from irradiated chicken spermatozoa are not viable vectors for gene transfer. In three experiments conducted at sequential intervals over a period of 1 1/2 years, no marker traits were found in 1,065 G0 progeny from irradiated spermatozoa of Minnesota Dominant Marker males inseminated into recessive Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn females. The inability to secure transformants is ascribed to the following factors: a maximum of five and probably fewer potential vector fragments for each G0 progeny because of irradiation effect on spermatozoan ability to enter the germinal disc; uncertainty of DNA integrity from highly irradiated chromatin; no known mechanism for release of chromatin fragments from irradiated spermatozoa supernumerary pronuclei; and the uncertainty of selective integration into the zygotic nucleus.

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