A glance on animal sperm banking literature over the last decade

International Conference and Exhibition on Tissue Preservation & Bio-banking

July 20-22, 2015 Barcelona, Spain

Isabel Casas

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Tissue Sci Eng

Abstract :

The increase in the global population threatens the diversity of AnGRs (Animal Genetic Resources) both in livestock, critical for food security and rural development and in animals in the wildness, fundamental to keep the natural heritage and our future as specie. Animal sperm banking is a relevant tool to maintain such diversity and a retrospective analysis of the literature in this area has been performed to provide information on trends in the last decade. A total of 692 peer reviewed manuscripts related to animal (non-human) sperm banking were screened using the Pubmed® searching engine among those published from 2004 to mid 2014. Descriptive statistics were obtained with the SPSS®v15.0.1 software after classifying manuscripts according to four different parameters: Country of origin, specie studied, objective of the research and preservation method used. According to results, five countries (Spain, USA, Japan, Brazil and Australia) have conducted the 53.14% of studies in animal sperm banking sampled. Also, the 63% of the studies are focused on domestic species and certain research topics have been tested more recurrently than others. These are the optimization of the preservation protocol and the testing of the sperm viability, these topics accounting for 70.58% of the studies sampled. Finally, cryopreservation has been the predominant preservation model adopted (90.08%).