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The application of transgenic techniques for the improvement of domestic animal productivity
1CSIRO Division of Animal Production, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.
Abstract:
The application of transgenesis techniques to domestic animals has now been achieved in all the major species of domestic animals. In this review, the progress towards genuine practical applications of the technique is examined. Areas which appear to have made progress during the past several years include the evaluation of animals with elevated growth hormone levels, the introduction of novel metabolic pathways, the expression of transgenes in the mammary glands of pigs and sheep, and the real possibility that functional immunoglobulin genes might be used to confer genetically-inherited disease resistance to commercially-valuable animal breeds.
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