lundi 26 avril 2010

La Chine clone des chèvres qui produisent plus de cachemire

Le Monde - Sciences, samedi, 24 avril 2010, p. 24

Une douzaine de chèvres dotées d'un gène permettant de produire plus de cachemire ont été clonées dans un laboratoire de Mongolie intérieure, la principale région productrice. Elles produisent un kilo de laine par an, contre 600 g pour les chèvres classiques, rapporte l'agence Chine nouvelle.

PHOTO - An elderly man belonging to the Chang-pa mountain tribe holds his Himalayan goat as his son cuts its horn that was hurting the animal's eye in Kharnak, some 185 kilometers (116 miles) from Leh, India, in this July 21, 2007 photo. More than 100,000 Himalayan goats famed for their pashmina wool or cashmere face starvation after their desert habitat was blanketed with snow, while three people died during the region's worst storms in three decades, officials said Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008.


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