Advances and Limitations of In Vitro Embryo Production Technologies in Small Ruminants
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Small Ruminants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1008
Special Issue Editors
Interests: domestic animals; sperm and oocyte recognition; fertilization; embryo
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The procedures for in vitro embryo production (IVEP) have been widely applied in domestic animal breeding to accelerate the genetic spread of females. The combination of IVEP and embryo cryoconservation has contributed to shortening generation intervals and increased genetic gain for dairy cows. Compared to embryos produced in vivo, the efficiency of IVEP for small ruminants is still not ideal and limits its commercial application. The IVEP methodology involves the following steps: the oocytes recovered from follicles are maturated (IVM), fertilized in vitro (IVF), and cultured in vitro (IVC) up to the blastocyst stage. Recently, research using advanced molecular methods, particularly multi-omics sequencing at the single cell level, has clarified many issues related to oocyte maturation and embryo development, which will soon be applied to improve the use of IVEP for small ruminants.
In this Special Issue, we invite original research papers and reviews or studies addressing the advances and limitations of in vitro embryo production technologies in small ruminants, including inducing ovulation, oocyte aspiration, oocyte maturation, fertilization, and embryo culture in vitro.
Dr. Lu Zhang
Dr. Gongxue Jia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- small ruminants
- goat
- sheep
- IVEP
- in vitro
- fertilization
- embryo
- assisted reproductive technology
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