The application of reproductive technologies to natural populations of red deer

JJ Garde, F Martínez‐Pastor… - … in Domestic Animals, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in the application of
reproductive technology to the conservation and management of natural populations of …

Inbreeding and reproduction in endangered ungulates: preservation of genetic variation through the organization of genetic resource banks

ERS Roldan, M Gomendio, JJ Garde… - … in domestic animals, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Contents There is a constant increase in the number of species suffering marked reductions
in population size. This reduction in size and the lack of genetic flow may lead to a decrease …

Functional Significance of the Sperm Head Morphometric Size and Shape for Determining Freezability in Iberian Red Deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) Epididymal …

MC Esteso, AJ Soler… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In the present study, computer‐automated sperm head morphometry of epididymal samples
was used to determine if sperm head area and shape are useful measurements for …

Effectiveness of ultra-rapid cryopreservation of sperm from endangered species, examined by morphometric means

E O'Brien, MC Esteso, C Castaño, A Toledano-Díaz… - Theriogenology, 2019 - Elsevier
This study compares the effectiveness of the ultra-rapid and conventional freezing of sperm
from captive bovids, giraffids, cervids, ursids, a cercopithecid, a delphinid and a …

[HTML][HTML] Use of the hypo-osmotic swelling test and aniline blue staining to improve the evaluation of seasonal sperm variation in native Spanish free-range poultry

J Santiago-Moreno, C Castaño, MA Coloma… - Poultry Science, 2009 - Elsevier
The season may affect the values of fresh semen variables and therefore influence the
success of cryopreservation. The aim of this study was to improve the evaluation of seasonal …

Conventional slow freezing cryopreserves mouflon spermatozoa better than vitrification

J Pradiee, MC Esteso, C Castaño… - Andrologia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This work examines the effectiveness of a TCG (Tris, citric acid, glucose, 6% egg yolk and
5% glycerol) and a TEST (TES, Tris, glucose, 6% egg yolk and 5% glycerol) sperm extender …

Seminal plasma removal by density-gradient centrifugation is superior for goat sperm preservation compared with classical sperm washing

J Santiago-Moreno, MC Esteso, C Castaño… - Animal Reproduction …, 2017 - Elsevier
Seminal plasma removal is routine in goat sperm cryopreservation protocols. The classical
washing procedure designed to accomplish this usually leaves the pellet resulting from use …

Fertilizing capacity of vitrified epididymal sperm from Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica)

J Pradieé, MJ Sánchez-Calabuig, C Castaño, E O'Brien… - Theriogenology, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we successfully described for the first time a vitrification of epididymal Iberian
ibex spermatozoa. Spermatozoa from epididymis were obtained from 15 Iberian ibex. The …

Sperm freezability is neither associated with the expression of aquaporin 3 nor sperm head dimensions in dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius)

E O'Brien, C Malo, C Castaño, P García-Casado… - Theriogenology, 2022 - Elsevier
The expression of aquaglyceroporin 3 (AQP-3) has been demonstrated in the spermatozoa
of several mammalian species and its role has been associated with cryotolerance. Post …

Evaluation of epididymal semen quality using the Hamilton–Thorne analyser indicates variation between the two caudae epididymides of the same bull

IGF Goovaerts, GG Hoflack, A Van Soom, J Dewulf… - Theriogenology, 2006 - Elsevier
Epididymal semen is being more often considered as a potential source of valuable genes
for genome resource banks. To utilize this resource as efficiently as possible, storage and …