1. Progress, challenges and perspectives on fish gamete cryopreservation: A mini-review
- Author
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Elsa Cabrita, Ákos Horváth, and Juan F. Asturiano
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Oocyte ,Endangered species ,Fish species ,Broodstock ,Aquaculture ,Biology ,PRODUCCION ANIMAL ,Salmon salmo-salar ,Cryopreservation ,Mini review ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cryobanking ,Endocrinology ,Trout oncorhynchus-mykiss ,medicine ,Animals ,Sparus-aurata spermatozoa ,14. Life underwater ,Carp cyprinus-carpio ,Brycon-orbignyanus valenciennes ,business.industry ,Ecology ,Zebrafish danio-rerio ,Fishes ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Sperm ,Germ Cells ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Catfish clarias-gariepinus ,Grayling thymallus-thymallus ,Gilthead sea bream ,040102 fisheries ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,Gamete ,%22">Fish ,European eel sperm ,Animal Science and Zoology ,business ,Biotechnology - Abstract
[EN] Protocols for the cryopreservation of fish gametes have been developed for many different fish species, in special, freshwater salmonids and cyprinids. Methods for sperm freezing have progressed during the last decades due to the increasing number of potential applications: aquaculture (genetic improvement programs, broodstock management, helping with species having reproductive problems), biotechnology studies using model fish species (preservation of transgenic or mutant lines), cryobanking of genetic resources from endangered species, etc. This mini-review tries to give an overview of the present situation of this area of research, identifying the main challenges and perspectives, redirecting the reader to more in-depth reviews and papers., Partially funded by the European Training Network IMPRESS (Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions; Grant agreement nº: 642893), COST Office (Food and Agriculture COST Action FA1205: AQUAGAMETE), the Research Centre of Excellence- 9878-3/2016/FEKUT, KMR_12-1-2012-0436, NKFIH (OTKA) 109847, KLING 31-03-05-FEP-73, CRIOBIV 31-03-05-FEP-59, REPLING 31-03-05-FEP-69 all from PROMAR programme.
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- 2017