Reproductive sciences in animal conservation
Subtitle: progress and prospects
By: William V. Holt, Janine L. Brown, Pierre Comizzoli, editors
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- 753; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 753.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9781493908196; 9781493908202
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Germplasm resources conservation; Wildlife conservation; Animal Population Groups; Conservation; Animal Germplasm resources; Reproduction; Biodiversity conservation; Reproductive technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Introduction. -- 1.; title: Reproductive science as an essential component of conservation biology  -- William V. Holt, Janine L. Brown, and Pierre Comizzoli ; -- 2.; title: "Mayday Mayday Mayday", the Millennium Ark is sinking!  -- Steven L. Monfort -- Part 2.; title: The Big Picture : Can Species Survive and Adapt in a Changing World? -- 3.; title: Climate change, extinction risks, and reproduction of terrestrial vertebrates  -- Cynthia Carey ; -- 4.; title: Impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction in wildlife  -- Emmelianna Kumar and William V. Holt ; -- 5.; title: The role of genomics in conservation and reproductive sciences  -- Warren E. Johnson and Klaus Koepfli ; -- 6.; title: The epigenetic basis of adaptation and responses to environmental change : perspective on human reproduction  -- Agustín F. Fernández, Estela García Toraño, Rocío González Urdinguio, Abel Gayo Lana, Ignacio Arnott Fernández, and Mario F. Fraga ; -- 7.; title: The black-footed ferret : on the brink of recovery?  -- Rachel M. Santymire, Travis M. Livieri, Heather Branvold-Faber, and Paul E. Marinari ; -- 8.; title: Comparative reproductive biology of elephants  -- Janine L. Brown ; -- 9.; title: The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) : a case study in the development of reproductive technology in a marsupial  -- Stephen D. Johnston and William V. Holt ; -- 10.; title: Reproduction and advances in reproductive studies in carnivores  -- Katarina Jewgenow and Nucharin Songsasen ; -- 11.; title: Methods to examine reproductive biology in free-ranging, fully-marine mammals  -- Janet M. Lanyon and Elizabeth A. Burgess ; -- 12.; title: Amphibian declines in the twenty-first century : why we need assisted reproductive technologies  -- John Clulow, Vance L. Trudeau, and Andrew J. Kouba ; -- 13.; title: The reality, use and potential for cryopreservation of coral reefs  -- Mary Hagedorn and Rebecca Spindler ; -- 14.; title: Recent advances and prospects in germplasm preservation of rare and endangered species  -- Pierre Comizzoli and William V. Holt ; -- 15.; title: Sperm DNA fragmentation and its role in wildlife conservation  -- Jaime Gosálvez, William V. Holt, and Stephen D. Johnston ; -- 16.; title: Somatic cells, stem cells, and induced pluripotent stem cells : how do they now contribute to conservation?  -- Gabriela F. Mastromonaco, L. Antonio González-Grajales, Melissa Filice, and Pierre Comizzoli ; -- 17.; title: Biosafety in embryos and semen cryopreservation, storage, management and transport  -- A. Bielanski ; -- 18.; title: Fertility control in wildlife : review of current status, including novel and future technologies  -- Deborah Garside, Ayman Gebril, Manal Alsaadi, and Valerie A. Ferro ; -- 19.; title: Cloning the mammoth : a complicated task or just a dream?  -- Pasqualino Loi, Joseph Saragusty, and Grazyna Ptak ; -- 20.; title: Conclusions : environmental change, wildlife conservation and reproduction  -- William V. Holt, Janine L. Brown, and Pierre Comizzoli; title: Index.