Rare sheep cloned from dead donor

With DNA from recently dead animals, an international team has cloned an imperiled

species.

The unveiling of a mouflon sheep clone “is the first report of a dead cell used

for cloning,” says Pasqualino Loi of the University of Teramo in Italy.

Herds of rare wild mouflon sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, are shrinking on their native Mediterranean islands of Sardinia, Corsica, and Cyprus.