Growth,Reproductive Performance,Carcass Characteristics and Meat Quality in
F1 and F2 Progenies of Somatic Cell-Cloned Pigs |
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| Authors: | Noritaka ADACHI Daisuke YAMAGUCHI Akiyuki WATANABE Narumi MIURA Seiji SUNAGA Hitoshi OISHI Michiko HASHIMOTO Takatsugu OISHI Masaki IWAMOTO Hirofumi HANADA Masanori KUBO Akira ONISHI |
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| Abstract: | The objective of this study was to examine the health and meat production of cloned sows
and their progenies in order to demonstrate the application of somatic cell cloning to the
pig industry. This study compared the growth, reproductive performance, carcass
characteristics and meat quality of Landrace cloned sows, F1 progenies and F2 progenies.
We measured their body weight, growth rate and feed conversion and performed a
pathological analysis of their anatomy to detect abnormalities. Three of the five cloned
pigs were used for a growth test. Cloned pigs grew normally and had characteristics
similar to those of the control purebred Landrace pigs. Two cloned gilts were bred with a
Landrace boar and used for a progeny test. F1 progenies had characteristics similar to
those of the controls. Two of the F1 progeny gilts were bred with a Duroc or Large White
boar and used for the progeny test. F2 progenies grew normally. There were no biological
differences in growth, carcass characteristics and amino acid composition among cloned
sows, F1 progenies, F2 progenies and conventional pigs. The cloned sows and F1 progenies
showed normal reproductive performance. No specific abnormalities were observed by
pathological analysis, with the exception of periarteritis in the F1 progenies. All pigs
had a normal karyotype. These results demonstrate that cloned female pigs and their
progenies have similar growth, reproductive performance and carcass quality
characteristics and that somatic cell cloning could be a useful technique for conserving
superior pig breeds in conventional meat production. |
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| Keywords: | Carcass Cloned pig Meat quality Reproduction Somatic cell clone |
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