But cloning is expressly prohibited under rules passed in March, said Gary Griffith, executive director of registration for the American Quarter Horse Assn.
All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Science is publishing an article in its Friday edition about the cloning. White and his laboratory crew carried out the actual cloning procedure. So I feel, I guess, like a happy father," he said Thursday in a telephone interview. For several years, he and his team have been traveling to the University of Idaho for four weeks of research during the summer.
Not only is Idaho Gem the first member of the equines to be cloned, it is also the first hybrid animal created by cloning. Hybrids are the result of the breeding of two separate species — in this case, a male donkey and a female horse — and are almost always sterile. The fact that they are sterile used to mean that champion mules could not reproduce, so whatever superior characteristics they had would die with them.
That may change with the advent of cloning. Also, champion racehorses often are geldings, that is, castrated stallions. They are unable to reproduce in the normal way, but now their lines possibly may be continued. An announcement by Science noted that until now, researchers were unable to clone horses or equine relatives. But Woods and colleagues "found that increasing the calcium concentrations in the media" containing cloning material "may have contributed to the success.
Authors implanted oocytes, pre-embryos, in surrogate mother mares. One of the clones, Idaho Gem, was born on May 4 while two mares were still pregnant with cloned mules. So far, Idaho Gem has developed normally, Science notes. White is recognized as an expert on cattle cloning. I can say I saw this baby when he was a single cell. He looked good then and he looks good today.
At a. The pound foal proved the merits of hybrid vigor immediately, getting to its feet only 12 minutes after birth. Before summer ends, Idaho Gem could have two identical cloned brothers. Their effects on medicine, equine sports, and preservation of endangered species remains to be seen.
Wherever it all heads, look for the Idaho-Utah State team in the lead. Should awesome equine athletes be cloned,especially if they are geldings? Prof Allen, who happens to be jockey Frankie Dettori's father-in-law, has mixed feelings about the birth of Idaho Gem. His group had been racing to be the first to produce a clone from the equine family for the past 18 months.
I am feeling very cheesed," he said. I am just jealous as hell of them. Idaho Gem, the world's first cloned mule. Birth of an identical genetic copy of a member of the equine family could mark the start of a new era in the wealthy world of horse racing.
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