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Preferred term

embryo bisection  

Entry terms

  • bisection
  • embryo splitting

Note

  • Identical twins in cattle by bisection of six- to seven-day morulae and early blastocysts with a fine glass needle. Bisected demi-embryos were produced in 1983 placed into surrogate zonae pellucidae and transferred nonsurgically to recipient mothers. Fifty-six percent developed into fetuses with 30% of the original embryos resulting in identical twins. This technique has gone out of favour by the embryo transfer industry and is little used today. (Source : INRA)

Subject

  • Biotechnology and applied microbiology
  • Reproduction biology

preferred label (skos-xl)

In other languages

  • Information

    lexinfo:gender: feminine

    lexinfo:partOfSpeech: noun

    scission d'embryon

    French

  • bissection d'embryon
  • duplication des embryons
  • duplication embryonnaire
  • hémisection
  • section d'embryon

URI

https://opendata.inra.fr/BRMH/185

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