Abstract

Embryonic stem cell technology has emerged from the dem onstration that in vitro cultured cells could re-populate the germ line to a facile system for the analysis of gene fuction. In this report some of the key technical advances that facilitated the development of this technology in the m ouse will be reviewed. The types of genetic changes that can be introduced into the m ouse genome using ES cells will also be discussed.

J. S Gavora, A. M Roper, J. Mucha, R. Prochazka, B. Benkel, J. Nagai, P. Sabour, L. Babiuk, M. Falconer, J. D Turner

Proceedings of the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Volume 21. Gene mapping; polymorphisms; disease genetic markers; marker assisted selection; gene expression; transgenes; non-convention, , 362–365, 1994