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India’s first cloned Assamese buffalo born
March 22 , 2018
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- The Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) has claimed that a cloned Assamese buffalo male calf was born for the first time in India.
- A team of researchers used unique methods and produced the clone calf 'Sach-Gaurav' through a normal delivery. The CIRB cloning team was led by PS Yadav.
- It was born to Murrah buffalo, at Hi Tech Sach Dairy Farm, and making it first buffalo calf to be born in field.
- This is second cloned male buffalo produced by ICAR-CIRB after Hisar-Gaurav, born in December 2015.
- The genotype of the calf was confirmed through microsatellite analysis for parentage verification and chromosome analysis.
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