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The transfer of plasmid pcDNA3-lacZ by electrotrasfected sperm cells into loach (Misgurnus fossilis L.) ova has been studied. The lacZ gene has been found to express in 3- to 5-day-old prelarvae.
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Andreeva, L.E., Sleptsova, L.A., Grigorenko, A.P. et al. Loach Sperm Cells Transfer Foreign DNA Expressed in Early Development. Russian Journal of Genetics 39, 627–629 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024445507852
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