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Cloned cat
CC
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Breed
| Domestic shorthair
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Born
| (
2001-12-22
)
December 22, 2001
College Station, Texas
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Died
| March 3, 2020
(2020-03-03)
(aged 18)
College Station, Texas
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Known for
| First cloned pet
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CC
, for "
CopyCat
"
or
"
Carbon Copy
"
[1]
(December 22, 2001 ? March 3, 2020), was a brown
tabby
and white
domestic shorthair
and the first
cloned
pet
.
[2]
She was cloned by scientists at
Texas A&M University
in conjunction with
Genetic Savings & Clone Inc
. CC's surrogate mother was a tabby, but her genetic donor, Rainbow, was a
calico
domestic longhair. The difference in hair
coloration
between CC and Rainbow is due to
X-inactivation
and
epigenetic
re-programming
, which normally occurs in a
fertilized
embryo
before implantation.
[3]
[4]
In December 2006, CC gave birth to four
kittens
. The litter was fathered naturally by another lab cat named Smokey. It included two males named Tim and Zip and one female named Tess. Another kitten (a female) was stillborn. This incident was the first time a cloned pet gave birth. Throughout her life, CC appeared to be free of the cloning-related health problems that have arisen in some other animal clones. "CC has always been a perfectly normal cat and her kittens are just that way, too," according to Shirley Kraemer, CC's owner. "We've been monitoring their health and all of them are fine, just like CC has been for the past five years."
[5]
In 2004,
Genetic Savings and Clone
produced the first commercially cloned pet, a
Maine Coon
cat named "
Little Nicky
" who was cloned from a 17-year-old deceased pet cat.
[6]
On March 3, 2020, CC died at 18 years old in College Station, Texas.
[7]
See also
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References
[
edit
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- ^
Science Magazine Report
Archived
2013-09-05 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
Westhusin, Mark; Lyons, Leslie; Murphy, Keith; Buck, Sandra; Lisa Howe; Rugila, James; Liu, Ling; Pryor, Jane; Kraemer, Duane (February 2002).
"Cell biology: A cat cloned by nuclear transplantation"
.
Nature
.
415
(6874): 859.
Bibcode
:
2002Natur.415..859S
.
doi
:
10.1038/nature723
.
ISSN
1476-4687
.
PMID
11859353
.
S2CID
4431855
.
- ^
Berkowitz, Lana (May 17, 2011).
"First cloned cat turns 10"
.
Houston Chronicle
.
Archived
from the original on December 24, 2015
. Retrieved
2015-09-12
.
- ^
"Is the Coat Color and Spot Pattern of Cloned Animals the Same as Their Genetic Donor?"
.
Viagen Pets
. 2017-09-13
. Retrieved
2019-01-29
.
- ^
"Copy Cat: First Cloned Cat Produces 3 Kittens"
. December 13, 2006.
Archived
from the original on December 14, 2015
. Retrieved
2015-09-12
.
- ^
Jha, Suzanne Goldenberg Alok (2004-12-24).
"The world's first cloned pet (cost $50,000)"
.
The Guardian
.
ISSN
0261-3077
. Retrieved
2018-01-10
.
- ^
"The world's first cloned pet CC lived long normal happy life before her death"
.
CBS-DFW
. 2020-03-03
. Retrieved
2020-03-05
.
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