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Reproduction Biotechnology in Goats

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Goat is an important small ruminant livestock species with ubiquitous distribution in most countries. Goats are known for their unique browsing habits, and quality milk, meat, and skin production. A number of transgenic goats are developed for use as bioreactors to produce recombinant proteins of therapeutic importance. Reproduction biotechniques, namely embryo cryopreservation, sperm sexing and cryopreservation, nuclear transfer cloning, and genome editing, have important contribution goat production.

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  • Goats are important multipurpose livestock species reared all over the world

  • Due to peculiar characteristics, the goats are preferred for producing recombinant proteins.

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  1. ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Regional Station, Palampur, India

    Birbal Singh & Gorakh Mal

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

    Sanjeev K. Gautam

  3. Department of Animal Biotechnology, ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal, Haryana, India

    Manishi Mukesh

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Singh, B., Mal, G., Gautam, S.K., Mukesh, M. (2019). Reproduction Biotechnology in Goats. In: Advances in Animal Biotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21309-1_27

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