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sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 26 days ago

Japanese scientists have successfully created fertile female clones of a male rat, who can have healthy offspring when breeding with the original male rat.

www.iflscience.com

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Japanese scientists have successfully created fertile female clones of a male rat, who can have healthy offspring when breeding with the original male rat.

www.iflscience.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 26 days ago
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    I want to be excited about this but I don’t expect the offspring to carry a lot of genetic diversity. This is highly complicated inbreeding but with even fewer genes than normal.

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      Why would they run this experiment anyways?

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        Possibly as a way to repopulate nearly endangered species that may not have viable females to reproduce normally?

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          Northern white rhinoceros have only two females left!

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        To prove the cloned offspring is viable/fertile?

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