Frozen Zoo®
Our Frozen Zoo® is the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in the world. It contains over 10,000 living cell cultures, oocytes, sperm, and embryos representing nearly 1,000 taxa, including one extinct species, the po’ouli. Located at the Beckman Center for Conservation Research, the collection is also duplicated for safekeeping at a second site. The irreplaceable living cell lines, gametes, and embryos stored in the Frozen Zoo® provide an invaluable resource for conservation, assisted reproduction, evolutionary biology, and wildlife medicine.
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About this database
| Website | https://science.sandiegozoo.org/resources/frozen-zoo%C2%AE |
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| Subjects | Life Sciences · Biology · Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine · Zoology · Animal Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research · Animal Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Last updated | 2026-09-13 |