Animal Science Faculty

Randall S. Prather

Curators' Professor

Reproductive Physiology and Molecular Biology, Transgenic Pigs

Associate-Leader of Reproductive Biology Cluster
Food for the 21st Century

Co-Director of the National Swine Resource and Research Center

Animal Science Research Center
Division Of Animal Sciences
Columbia, MO 65211

• Phone: (573) 882-6414/6391
• Fax: 573-884-7827
• Email
• Curriculum Vitae

News Releases

• January 20, 2009 A Bacon of Hope
• Sept. 25, 2008 Pigs Bred with Cystic Fibrosis Provide Model to Mimic Human Disease
• March 6, 2008 Mizzou, Iowa Researchers Take First Step to Create Cystic Fibrosis Model using Pigs
• Dec 18 2006 Discover magazine ranks omega-3 pork among top science stories of 2006
• May 16, 2006 MU Researchers Create Process to Successfully Cryopreserve Cloned Swine Embryos

Supplemental Material for Publications

• "Bonk et al Aberrant DNA Methylation in Porcine in vitro-, parthenogenetic-, and somatic cell nuclear transfer-produced blastocysts." Supplemental Material
• Bonk et al CORRELATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES OF NUCLEAR TRANSFER EMBRYO CELLS TO THE METHYLATION PROFILES OF NUCLEAR TRANSFER DONOR CELLS IN SWINE Supplemental Material
• McHughes et al Identification and quantification of differentially represented transcripts in preimplantation bovine embryos.
  Supplemental Material - Bovine Spreadsheet (xls)
• Hao et al Porcine skin-derived stem cells can serve as donor cells for nuclear transfer Supplemental Material