Sperm Preservation and Sexing Technologies in Large- and Small-Ruminant Reproduction: Current Status and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Reproduction".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2026 | Viewed by 353
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ram and buck sperm cryopreservation; ram and buck semen analysis; flow cytometry of sperm from large and small ruminants; sperm motility evaluation; semen diluents for small ruminants; artificial insemination of sheep and goats
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Interests: breeding of small ruminants; artificial insemination; sheep and goats synchronization; sheep husbandry; goats husbandry; animal biotechnology; sheep production; sperm cryopreservation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue plans to provide an overview of the most recent advances in the field of sperm preservation and sexing technologies used in large- and small-ruminant reproduction.
This Special Issue aims to provide selected contributions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Optimization of insemination dose processing;
- In vitro assays that predict the fertilizing ability of insemination doses;
- Ethical questions related to the artificial insemination of large and small ruminants;
- Development of sperm diluents for fresh, chilled, or cryopreserved insemination doses;
- Technologies of sperm preservation (especially alternative techniques for sperm preservation without liquid nitrogen);
- Technologies of sperm sexing (especially alternatives to the flow-cytometry-based method);
- Optimizing artificial insemination methods (especially those appropriate for small ruminants);
- Hormonal and non-hormonal synchronization schemes.
Dr. Filipp Georgijevič Savvulidi
Dr. Martin Ptáček
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- semen
- cryopreservation
- liquid storage
- sperm lyophilization
- sexed semen
- sperm quality
- biotech-nology
- domestic and wild ruminants
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