PMID- 32379910 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210128 LR - 20210128 IS - 1439-0531 (Electronic) IS - 0936-6768 (Linking) VI - 55 IP - 7 DP - 2020 Jul TI - Sexing of pre-implantation ovine embryos through polymerase chain reaction-based amplification of GAPDH, SRY and AMEL genes. PG - 885-892 LID - 10.1111/rda.13699 [doi] AB - The ability to identify the sex of embryo and control of sex ratio has a great commercial importance to livestock industry. Prediction of embryonic sex could be useful in the management decisions of sex selection in breeding programs. Several methods have been attempted to determine the sex but the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based sexing method is generally favoured, as it is cost effective, simple and reliable. The aim of the present study was to identify sex of sheep embryos produced in vitro through amplification of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), sex-determining region Y (SRY) and amelogenin genes present in genomic DNA (gDNA) of embryos through PCR. To avoid false interpretation of the result by no amplification of SRY in female embryos, a duplex PCR was approached to amplify combinedly SRY and GAPDH genes. Sex-specific blood was used in PCR as positive control. In vitro sheep embryos were produced as per standardized protocol of laboratory. Sexing of sex-specific blood and in vitro produced embryos were approached though PCR to amplify the respective genes using gDNA present in the sample without its traditional isolation. The accuracy of sex prediction for embryos was 100% by this procedure. CI - (c) 2020 Blackwell Verlag GmbH. FAU - Mishra, Ashish AU - Mishra A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6597-4162 AD - ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore, India. FAU - Dhali, Arindam AU - Dhali A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9734-8796 AD - ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore, India. FAU - Reddy, Ippala J AU - Reddy IJ AD - ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore, India. FAU - Kolte, Atul P AU - Kolte AP AD - ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore, India. LA - eng GR - APR 3.15/ICAR-NIANP/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200526 PL - Germany TA - Reprod Domest Anim JT - Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene JID - 9015668 RN - 0 (Amelogenin) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) RN - EC 1.2.1.- (Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases) SB - IM MH - Amelogenin/genetics/metabolism MH - Animals MH - DNA/blood/genetics MH - Embryo, Mammalian MH - Female MH - Genes, sry/genetics MH - Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases/genetics/metabolism MH - Male MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods/*veterinary MH - Sex Determination Analysis/methods/*veterinary MH - Sheep/*embryology OTO - NOTNLM OT - AMEL OT - GAPDH OT - SRY OT - PCR OT - embryos OT - sex identification EDAT- 2020/05/08 06:00 MHDA- 2021/01/29 06:00 CRDT- 2020/05/08 06:00 PHST- 2019/08/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/04/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/05/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/01/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/05/08 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/rda.13699 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Reprod Domest Anim. 2020 Jul;55(7):885-892. doi: 10.1111/rda.13699. Epub 2020 May 26.