The Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources identified conservation as a “Strategic Priority Area” to be addressed, with 1/3 of domestic breeds being considered as endangered. In order to preserve the genetic diversity of livestock in complementarity to in vivo conservation, ex situ in vitro cryoconservation of animal reproductive material has been developed in many countries with the onset of more or less comprehensive cryobanks operating for at least 10 years. Farm animal gene banks are important sources of genetic variation to ensure breeds’ long-term survival and for research purposes.
In recent years, new genomic methodologies, biotechnologies, and bioinformatics tools have been developed for a better knowledge and exploitation of animal genetic resources. Thus, the idea behind this Special Issue is recent advances in animal genetic collections to preserve, exploit, characterize, and manage animal genetic resources.
When we talk about animal genetic collections, we mean sets of biological samples, either of reproductive (semen, embryos, etc.), or other biological material (DNA, blood, etc.) obtained from animal genetic resources.
The Special Issue will be interdisciplinary because articles related to different areas, but all related to animal genetic resources, are of interest for publication, for example: New biotechnologies to preserve animal genetic resources (sperm, blood, DNA, ovarian, embryos, etc.), which includes areas such as reproduction, biotechnology, physiology; new tools for better management of gene banks, related to areas such as economy and informatics; and genomics tools to exploit animal genetic resources stored in gene banks, genetics, biology, animal science, etc.
Dr. Oscar Cortes Gardyn
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- animal genetics
- sperm
- blood
- DNA
- ovarian
- embryos
- biotechnology
