Bioscientifica Proceedings

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Summary. Available techniques for the collection and direct transplantation of pig embryos are simple and efficient and could be used for the expansion of new lines, for increasing selection pressure in nucleus herds and for extracting healthy stock from a diseased source. However, the reduced viability of pig embryos during culture in vitro and the inability as yet to preserve them by deep-freezing impose limits to the use of embryo transplantat...