Opportunities and Limitations for Reproductive Science in Species Conservation
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- DOI: 10.1146/annurev-animal-013120-030858
Opportunities and Limitations for Reproductive Science in Species Conservation
Abstract
Reproductive science in the context of conservation biology is often understood solely in terms of breeding threatened species. Although technologies developed primarily for agriculture or biomedicine have a potentially important role in species conservation, their effectiveness is limited if we regard the main objective of animal conservation as helping to support populations rather than to breed a small number of individuals. The global threats facing wild species include the consequences of climate change, population growth, urbanization, atmospheric and water pollution, and the release of chemicals into the environment, to cite but a few. Reproductive sciences provide important and often unexpected windows into many of these consequences, and our aim here is both to demonstrate the breadth of reproductive science and the importance of basic knowledge and to suggest where some of the insights might be useful in mitigating the problems.
Keywords: assisted reproductive technologies; cryopreservation; extinction; genetic management; noninvasive endocrine monitoring; stem cells.
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