Table 2. Mitochondrial DNA copy numbers derived from porcine oocyte and mouse donor cells at different developmental stages of mouse-porcine cloned embryos1)
Stages | The mtDNA copy numbers | MFF/porcine oocyte mtDNA (%) |
Porcine oocyte mtDNA | MFF mtDNA |
1-cell | 1.1 × 106 ± 0.9 × 106 | 5.7 × 104 ± 0.3 × 105 | 5.0 ± 0.04 |
2-cell | 9.3 × 105 ± 0.5 × 106 | 4.2 × 103 ± 1.0 × 103 | 0.5 ± 0.01 |
4-cell | 6.6 × 105 ± 0.2 × 106 | 1.9 × 104 ± 0.6 × 104 | 2.9 ± 0.04 |
8-cell | 1.3 × 106 ± 0.3 × 106 | 2.0 × 103 ± 1.1 × 103 | 0.2 ± 0.00 |
Morula | 4.1 × 106 ± 0.8 × 106 | 2.5 × 104 ± 1.1 × 104 | 0.6 ± 0.01 |
Blastocyst | 1.3 × 106 ± 0.2 × 106 | 1.3 × 102 ± 0.3 × 102 | 0.009 ± 0.01 |
Experiments were repeated four times.