Abstract: Artificial activation of mammalian oocytes for cloning: present status and future perspectives / Takuya Wakai, Junya Ito and Rafael A. Fissore -- Epigenetic reprogramming of somatic nuclei via cell fusion / Takashi Tada and M. Azim Surani -- Nuclear origins and clone phenotype : what cloning tells us about embryonic development / Dasari Amarnath and Keith E. Latham -- Micromanipulation techniques for cloning / Raymond L. Page and Christopher M. Malcuit -- Nuclear transfer with germ cells : germ cell cloning contributes to current understanding of genomic imprinting in mammals / Jiyoung Lee, Takashi Kohda, and Fumitoshi Ishino -- Culture of viable mammalian embryos in vitro / David K. Gardner and Michelle Lane -- Genetic and phenotypic similarity among members of mammalian clonal sets / George E. Seidel Jr. -- Advances in the generation of transgenic domestic species via somatic cell nuclear transfer / Xia Zhang and Jorge A. Piedrahita -- Pregnancy and neonatal care of SCNT animals / Pascale Chavatte-Palmer [and five others] -- Donor cell type and cloning efficiency in mammals / Yoko Kato and Yukio Tsunoda -- Enhancing SCNT with chromatin remodeling agents / Satoshi Kishigami [and three others] -- Cell cycle regulation in cloning / Keith H.S. Campbell [and three others] -- Clone-specific X-linked gene repression caused by ectopic Xist transcripts from the active X chromosome / Kimiko Inoue and Atsuo Ogura -- Cloning of amphibia / Marta Teperek-Tkacz, James A. Byrne, and J. B. Gurdon -- Cloning of Medaka fish / Yuko Wakamatsu -- Somatic cell nuclear transfer in Zebrafish / Kannika Siripattarapravat, Boonya Pinmee, and José B. Cibelli -- Cloning of mice / Eiji Mizutani, Satoshi Kishigami, and Teruhiko Wakayama -- Cloning of rabbits / Qinggang Meng [and four others] -- Cloning pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer / Kiho Lee and Randall S. Prather -- A historical perspective of the cloning of cattle / Marijo Kent-First [and three others] -- Cloning of canines / Byeong Chen Lee [and four others] -- Cloning of Equines / Cesare Galli [and four others] -- Cloning primates / Calvin Simerly [and three others] -- Nuclear transfer for stem cells / Alan Trounson -- Current research and commercial applications of cloning technology / Steven L. Stice and David Faber -- Transgenic cloned goats and the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins / William Gavin [and five others.] -- Commercializing genetically engineered cloned cattle / Eddie J. Sullivan, Jerry Pommer, and Zhongde Wang -- Cloning endangered species / Pasqualino Loi, Jacek Modlinski, and Grazyna Ptak -- Genome editing in somatic cells using zinc finger nucleases and transcription activator-like effector nucleases / Shondra M. Pruett-Miller -- Targeted chromosome elimination from ES-somatic hybrid cells / Kunio Hirano, Liang Tso Sun, and Takashi Tada -- How cell division facilitates nuclear reprogramming / Jason Fan and Dieter Egli -- Proteomic approach to the reprogramming machinery of the mouse oocyte / Martin J. Pfeiffer [and eight others] -- Biological age of cloned animals / Kazuhiro Saeki, Yoichiro Hoshino, and Shunji Taniguchi -- Mitochondrial DNA / Justin C. St. John -- Interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer / Sebastian Canovas and José B. Cibelli -- Epigenetics of cloned livestock embryos and offspring / Heiner Niemann -- Comparing SCNT-derived ESCs and iPSCs / Bradly Alicea and José B. Cibelli -- Role of iPSC-producing factors in pre-implantation embryos / Tomokazu Amano and Minoru S.H. Ko -- Genome exchange in human oocytes / Daniel Paull and Dieter Egli -- Ethical implications of reproductive cloning / Ronald M. Green -- An overview of the regulatory considerations for animal cloning / Jeff Jones [and three others]