Biomarkers for Assessing Animal Semen Quality
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Reproduction".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 1375
Special Issue Editors
Interests: semen quality; biomarkers; diagnostic markers; male fertility; ejaculate analysis; semen parameters; spermatozoa
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Interests: cattle
Interests: semen analysis; biomarkers; animal reproduction; andrology; diagnostic markers; male fertility; ejacu-late analysis; fertility assessment
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Dear Colleagues,
Conventional semen analysis is subjective, time-consuming, and variable, while biomarker-based analysis using flow cytometry, in comparison, is a highly reproducible, quantitative, and fast way to measure thousands of spermatozoa per sample. Despite the publication of studies on biomarkers that can predict fertility with high accuracy and sensitivity, to date, no biomarker has been identified in semen or seminal plasma that can detect sub-fertile males. Further research on this topic is needed to determine a single, fast, simple, and reliable laboratory technique that can categorize males and semen doses into infertile, sub-fertile, fertile, and highly fertile. Achieving this objective would lead to an improvement in the reproductive efficiency of livestock farms in different animal species.
We encourage you to submit the latest and most advanced research articles on Biomarkers for Assessing Animal Semen Quality. Specifically, those papers that have determined a molecule or protein in semen or seminal plasma that can be correlated with fertility, and studies that determine a biomarker that can detect bulls or seminal doses with compromised fertility. Seminal biomarkers in bovine, porcine, equine, ovine, and caprine species will be accepted. These papers should aim to identify the most robust molecular biomarkers in sperm and seminal plasma for the diagnosis of male infertility, but systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the literature on biomarkers for assessing semen animal quality are also encouraged.
Dr. Carolina Tamargo de Miguel
Dr. Rodrigo Muiño Otero
Dr. Carlos Olegario Hidalgo Ordoñez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sperm
- fertility
- sub-fertile male
- molecular biomarkers
- seminal plasma
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