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We give a necessary and sufficient condition for an -dimensional Riemannian manifold to be isometrically immersed in or in terms of its first and second fundamental forms and of the projection of the vertical vector field on its tangent plane. We deduce the existence of a one-parameter family of isometric minimal deformations of a given minimal surface in or , obtained by rotating the shape operator