Combining use of embryo sexing and cloning within mixed MOETs for selection on dairy cattle.docVIP

for selection on dairy cattle Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Station de Genetique Quantitative et Appliqu6e, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, France (Received 17 September 1991; accepted 13 April 1992) Summary - Given the same overall number of transferred embryos, a comparison was carried out between adult mixed (ie with bull progeny-testing) MOET (multiple ovulation and embryo-transfer) schemes with embryo embryo sexing plus cloning sexing only versus of female embryos. In the former schemes, natural and ET (embryo transfer) animals were allowed to breed. In the latter schemes