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Torrent Vicente scientist, director of the research team that has won the first cloned bull in history, has appealed to the protection of the spigots that are in danger of extinction because they are a Spanish genetic heritage that must not disappear ".

The doctor Torrent, Valencia Foundation Veterinary Research, said in Murcia that "farmers, generally, tend to see us to veterinarians with some precautions when we talk about these matters, but we must convince them that must be preserved and save this heritage. "

Torrent, who spoke on the final day of the National Meeting held in Classroom Bullfighting School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Murcia, said that "Got", which is the name's first cloned bull, "grows on the farm in the normal ".

"Got" is a "genetic photocopy" of a stallion in the breeding of Maria Luisa Domínguez Pérez de Vargas, named "A cup", which was cloned nine months before his death, as indicated by the lecturer.

"This issue cloned, has pointed out, is intended to be a stallion in the livestock, and hopefully everything continues as normal in order to fulfill that role, but nobody escapes our scientific interest is now focused on the enigma that is what be transmitted to their descendants. "

The speaker encouraged the veterinary students to pour into research activity, "because you have to fight to preserve our heritage, bearing in mind that what is needed is an illusion, rather than money."

Torrent Vincent also noted that "cloning is a tool to rescue individuals of high genetic value" and added that the team he leads has made also be made with "lynx embryos are preserved."

Cloning operations that took place did not have a happy ending because "as surrogate mothers had to use lincesas boreal, which greatly affected the state will soon move from total freedom to be caged."

"This situation did, Torrent said that would not remain pregnant, so we tried nuclear transfer failed, but in any case, the embryos are obtained there, so its genetic diversity is not lost."

The National Meeting of Classrooms Taurinas University, organized by the Association for the Study of Toro Bravo of the University of Murcia (AETOBRA) has also occupied by women in the world of bullfighting and the stress of fighting bulls.

Source: Universidad de Murcia. Fotos: Luis Urbina