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Letter: How to breed spermless boar

Published 23 September 2015

From Keith Walters

You write that the company Recombinetics has “disabled a gene essential for testicular development [in pigs]… the idea is that the company will sell semen with this disabled gene for farmers for use in artificial insemination” (15 August, p 10). So, er… how do you get semen from boars with no testicles?
Riverstone, New South Wales, Australia

Issue no. 3040 published 26 September 2015

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