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	Transgenic Animals in Agriculture
	Edited by J D Murray, G B Anderson, A M Oberbauer and M M McGloughlin, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, USA
	Publication Date: February 1999 Number of Pages: 304 Pages Binding: Hardback ISBN: 0851992935 Price: £55.00  (US$100.00)

Contents, Contributors, and Preface

1. Transgenic Farm Animals 1

C.A. Pinkert and J.D. Murray

2. Development of Genetic Tools for Transgenic Animals 19

P.B. Hackett, Z. Izsvak, Z. Ivics and L. Caldovic

3. One Gene is Not Enough: Transgene Detection, Expression and Control 37

K.D. Wells and R.J. Wall

4. Embryonic Stem Cells in Agricultural Species 57

G.B. Anderson

5. Nuclear Transfer in the Production of Transgenic Farm Animals 67

I. Wilmut, E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A.J. Kind, A. Colman and K.H.S. Campbell

6. Embryonic Stem Cell Chimeras and Somatic Cell Nuclear Transplantation for Production of Transgenic Cattle 79

J.M. Robl, J.B. Cibelli, P.G. Golueke, J.J. Kane, C. Blackwell, J. Jerry, E.S. Dickenson, F.A. Ponce de Leon and S.L. Stice

7. Status of Sperm-mediated Delivery Methods for Gene Transfer 87

E.J. Squires

8. Understanding the Origin of Avian Primordial Germ Cells: Implications for Germ Cell Culture and Transgenesis in Poultry 97

J.N. Petitte, S. D’Costa and L. Karagenç

9. Generation of Transgenic Poultry by Transfection of Primordial Germ Cells 117

E.A. Wong, A.L. Wentworth, B.C. Wentworth, J.A. Proudman and M.E. El Halawani

10. Expression of Insulin-like Growth Factor-I in Skeletal Muscle of Transgenic Swine 131

V.G. Pursel, R.J. Wall, A.D. Mitchell, T.H. Elsasser, M.B. Solomon, M.E. Coleman, F. DeMayo and R.J. Schwartz

11. Production and Analysis of Transgenic Pigs Containing a Metallothionein Porcine Growth Hormone Gene Construct 145

M.B. Nottle, H. Nagashima, P.J. Verma, Z.T. Du, C.G. Grupen, S.M. McIlfatrick, R.J. Ashman, M.P. Harding, C. Giannakis, P.L. Wigley, I.G. Lyons, D.T. Harrison, B.G. Luxford, R.G. Campbell, R.J. Crawford and A.J. Robins

12. The Utilization of Bacterial Genes to Modify Domestic Animal Biochemistry 157

K.A. Ward, Z. Leish, A.G. Brownlee, J. Bonsing, C.D. Nancarrow and B.W. Brown

13. Production of Transgenic Cattle Expressing a Recombinant Protein in Milk 177

W.H. Eyestone

14. Changing the Composition and Properties of Milk 193

J.D. Murray and E.A. Maga

15. Comparison of Traditional Breeding and Transgenesis in Farmed Fish with Implications for Growth Enhancement and Fitness 209

R.A. Dunham and R.H. Devlin

16. Direct and Correlated Responses to Short-term Selection of 8-week Body Weight in Lines of Transgenic (oMt1a-oGH) Mice 231

F. Siewerdt, E.J. Eisen and J.D. Murray

17. Ethics, Animal Welfare and Transgenic Farm Animals 251

J.A. Mench

18. The Future of Transgenic Farm Animals 269

G.E. Seidel, Jr

Index 283