Laboratory Production of Cattle Embryos

by Ian Gordon and Ian Gordon

This book is devoted to technologies which are still developing but which are likely to take over from artificial insemination as the farmer's main tool to produce large numbers of high-quality calves. Cattle oocyte recovery, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer are techniques which permit cows to produce calves of a genetic quality and composition quite unlike that of the surrogate mother herself. They also enable cows, under suitable conditions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851989284
• ISBN13: 9780851989280
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 672 Pages