Developmental Plasticity in Response to Embryo Cryopreservation: The Importance of the Vitrification Device in Rabbits

摘要

This study was conducted to demonstrate how embryo manipulation techniques incur phenotypic changes throughout life. This study reports the first evidence demonstrating that the vitrification device used is not a trivial decision, providing valuable information about how the cooling–warming rates during vitrification can be partly responsible of the postnatal phenotypic variations.