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FERTILIZATION of rabbit eggs in vitro has been reported by many workers in recent years and Austin1 concluded that “success seems most likely to have been attained by Smith (1951), Dauzier et al. (1954), Dauzier and Thibault (1959), Thibault et al. (1954), Thibault and Dauzier (1960), Moricard (1954 a, b), and, particularly, Chang (1959)”. So far as is known, no authentic successful experiments to fertilize rodent eggs in vitro have been reported1–4. This communication describes a repeatable technique to fertilize the eggs of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) in vitro, and the results obtained by this technique.
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YANAGIMACHI, R., CHANG, M. Fertilization of Hamster Eggs in vitro. Nature 200, 281–282 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200281b0
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