Global warming represents a major stressful environmental condition that compromises the
reproductive efficiency of animals and humans via a rise of body temperature above its …

Seasonal variations in environmental temperatures impose added stress on domestic
species bred for economically important production traits. These heat‐mediated stressors …

Heat stress negatively influences the global pork industry and undermines genetic,
nutritional, management and pharmaceutical advances in management, feed and …

Livestock production is the world's dominant land use, covering about 45% of the Earth's
land surface, and much of it in harsh and variable environments that are unsuitable for other …

In most mammalian species including cattle, heat stress has deleterious effects on
nutritional, physiological and reproductive functions. Exposure of animals to a hot …

Contents Reduced reproductive performance of lactating cows during the summer is
associated with decreased thermoregulatory competence due to intensive genetic selection …

The molecular basis of ungulate and non-rodent conceptus elongation and gastrulation
remains poorly understood; however, use of state-of-the-art genomic technologies is …

Simple Summary In vitro embryo production (IVEP) is a technology that is widely used in the
field of reproductive biology. The first and most important step of IVEP is termed in vitro …

We report the successful piglet production from cryopreserved oocytes for the first time by
using a simple, high capacity vitrification protocol for preservation and a defined system for …

Astaxanthin, one of the most common carotenoids, elicits antioxidant effects on cellular
viability and embryonic development. This study was conducted to investigate the effects of …