Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (12): 6191-6203.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.12.022

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Analysis on the Effect of Rapid Population Expansion of Excellent Boars Based on Somatic Cell Cloning

LIU Bin1, ZHU Kangping1, ZHOU Chengpeng2,3,4, ZHOU Lixin5, XUE Jia5, SHEN Linyuan2,3,4, GAN Mailin2,3,4, ZHU Li2,3,4*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Southwest Pig Breeding and Expansion of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Sichuan Dekang Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Group Co., Ltd., Chengdu 610200, China;
    2. National Key Laboratory of Pig and Poultry Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China;
    3. Key Laboratory of Livestock and Poultry Biomics of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China;
    4. Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Exploration and Innovation Utilization of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China;
    5. Chengdu Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center, Chengdu 610041, China
  • Received:2025-05-16 Published:2025-12-24

Abstract: The study aimed to evaluate the application effect of somatic cell cloning technology (SCNT) in the rapid expansion of Topigs E line super boars. Using 12 super boars as donors, 1 100 embryos were isolated, cultured, frozen, amplified and subcultured, and transferred to 6 sows. Finally, 4 sows delivered 29 piglets (cloning efficiency 2.63%). The growth and develo-pment, semen quality and reproductive performance of cloned and non-cloned pigs were compared and analyzed. The results showed that there was no significant difference in growth and development between cloned pigs and donor normal offspring. There was no significant difference in semen volume ((188.17±49.27) mL) and effective sperm number ((486.35±159.56) million) between cloned pigs and donor siblings and donor half-sibs. There was no significant difference in reproductive performance of sows after mating. SNP detection showed that the inconsistency rate between cloned pigs and donor genes was below 0.14%, indicating that genetic information was derived from donors. In summary, there was no significant difference in reproductive performance and growth performance between cloned pigs and donor offspring. SCNT technology can be effectively used for super boar expansion production.

Key words: somatic cell cloning, breeding boars, expanding reproduction

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