This little piggy is a female
China Daily | Updated: 2009-06-26 07:50
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A worker hold four female piglets born in one brood yesterday at an experimental farm of the Animal Science Institute in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. They were the first pigs in China bred from sperm sorted into male and female chromosomes. Huo Yan |
NANNING: Chinese scientists have claimed a commercial breakthrough after breeding 10 piglets whose sex was successfully selected before conception, heralding potential higher profits for farmers.
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