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An important step forward has been made in controlling the sex of rabbits by sexing pre-implantation embryos and transferring the sexed embryos into recipient females. In the experiments, foetuses were surgically delivered and their sex was found to have been correctly predicted at the blastocyst stage.
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GARDNER, R., EDWARDS, R. Control of the Sex Ratio at Full Term in the Rabbit by transferring Sexed Blastocysts. Nature 218, 346–348 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218346a0
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