A major factor limiting the transgenesis in domestic animals is the inefficiency of maintaining large numbers of recipients carrying nontransgenic foetuses. The objectives of this study were: 1. to determine the influence of green fluorescent protein (GFP) construct injection on the development of bovine embryos, 2. to identify and select the GFP positive bovine embryos, and 3. to determine the rate of mosaicism in transgenic embryos. Cattle oocytes were matured and fertilised in vitro and zygotes were microinjected with pCX-EGFP construct consisting of CMV-IE enhancer, chicken β-actin promoter, cDNA of GFP (EGFP-732 bp) and rabbit β-globin polyadenylation sequences. Embryos from control (64) and microinjected (198) groups were cultured in vitro. After 168 h of culture, morula and blastocysts were observed in 39.06% of control and in 23.23% of injected group. We obtained three GFP positive embryos (1.51% of injected zygotes and 6.52% of morulae/blastocysts). One of them was 100, second 75 and third 25% GFP positive (66.7% of mosaicism). Use of gfp gene reporter to select bovine embryos is useful method to increase transgenic offspring, because GFP marker allows to choice only transgenic embryos and transfer them to recipients.
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