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Nuclear transfer saddles up

As equine cloning becomes a commercial reality, what will be the likely impact on the elite world of horse breeding and racing? Stephanie L. Church investigates.

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Figure 1: The phenotype/genotype conundrum.

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Church, S. Nuclear transfer saddles up. Nat Biotechnol 24, 605–607 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0606-605

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