TITLE

Audubon research scientists make cloning breakthroughs

AUTHOR(S)

Butler, Elisabeth

PUB. DATE

December 2003

SOURCE

New Orleans CityBusiness (1994 to 2008);12/22/2003, Vol. 24 Issue 26, p34

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the breakthroughs in wild and domestic cat artificial insemination and cloning at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, Louisiana. Birth of African wildcat clones; Promotion of the proliferation of rare animals; Plans of the research center to license a cloning process for housecats.

ACCESSION #

11823100

Tags: CLONING;  CATS;  RESEARCH institutes;  ENDANGERED species

 

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