Production of viable chicken by allogeneic transplantation of primordial germ cells induced from somatic cells

The authors reprogram chicken fibroblast cells to form primordial germ cells (PGCs) in one species (black feather Langshan chicken) and then show such PGCs can be transplanted and migrate into the genital ridge of another chicken species (White Plymouth Rock) to produce viable offspring with the Cha...

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Main Authors: Ruifeng Zhao, Qisheng Zuo, Xia Yuan, Kai Jin, Jing Jin, Ying Ding, Chen Zhang, Tingting Li, Jingyi Jiang, Jiancheng Li, Ming Zhang, Xiang Shi, Hongyan Sun, Yani Zhang, Qi Xu, Guobin Chang, Zhenhua Zhao, Bing Li, Xinsheng Wu, Yang Zhang, Jiuzhou Song, Guohong Chen, Bichun Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23242-5