Bioscientifica Proceedings

Contents

• Control of Pig Reproduction IX
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  • • Editorial: Control of Pig Reproduction

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  • Gametes and Embryos
  • • Oocyte and embryo metabolomics

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    • Mechanisms affecting litter sex ratio and embryo quality

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    • Boar seminal plasma proteins and their relevance to reproductive technologies

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    • Cryopreservation of female germplasm in pigs

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  • Oocyte-embryo Interplay with in vitro or in vivo milieu
  • • Embryo-maternal relationships during the periimplantation period � new and old players

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    • Transcriptional profiling of oocyte maturation and embryonic development elucidates metabolism and control of development

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    • Effects of season and follicle size on the metabolomic profile of porcine follicular fluid

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    • Comparative transcriptomic analysis between in vivo derived porcine 4-cell and morula embryos

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  • Recent Developments in Porcine AI & ET
  • • The search for the Booroola (FecB) mutation

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    • Current progress in non-surgical embryo transfer with fresh and vitrified/warmed pig embryos

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    • Birth weight and its impacts on testicular development in boars

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    • Seasonal effect on sperm motility characteristics and plasma membrane integrity in boar ejaculate fractions

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  • Pregnancy, Parturition and The Neonate
  • • Sow influence on neonatal survival: a special focus on colostrum

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    • Determining piglet survival

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    • How does nutrition influence luteal function and early embryo survival

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    • Roles of selected nutrients in development of the porcine conceptus during pregnancy

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  • Gestation Elicited
  • • Application of RNA-seq transcriptomic analysis to reproductive physiology of the pig: Insights into differential trophoblast function within the late gestation porcine placenta

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    • Maternal and fetal amino acid metabolism in gestating sows

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    • Next Generation Sequencing for microRNA profiling in the porcine endometrium

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    • Integrin α is necessary for the attachment of trophectoderm cells to osteopontin to mediate adhesion of the conceptus to the uterus during implantation in pigs

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  • Managing for Litter Survival
  • • Management to improve neonate piglet survival

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    • Prenatal stress in pigs: impact on growth, behaviour, neuroendocrine and immune functions in the offspring

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    • Importance of pre-mating nutritional and metabolic conditions for litter uniformity

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    • Use of the Immunocrit to monitor a split-suckle program in commercial production

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  • Reproductive Biotechnology
  • • Genome-wide selection for reproductive traits in swine

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    • Genome-wide selection for reproductive traits in swine

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    • Stem cells: Perspectives for the pig in relation to other species

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    • Porcine pluripotent stem cells and their differentiation

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    • Pigs as model systems for biomedical research

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  • Advancing “-Omics”
  • • Mapping of quantitative trait loci for reproductive traits in pigs

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    • Transcriptome analyses of porcine endometrium during the pre-implantation phase

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    • Vitrification procedure decreases inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor expression, resulting in low fertility of pig oocytes

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    • The use of stirred suspension bioreactors as a novel method to enrich germ cells from prepubertal pig testis

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  • Reproductive Selection in Practice
  • • Genomics-based selection for reproduction and adaptation in pigs

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    • Intravaginal application of Ovugel®, a productcontaining the GnRH agonist triptorelin acetate (TA), stimulates LH secretion in gilts

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    • Single layer centrifugation with androcoll-P prior to freezing enhances the in vitro fertilizing ability of frozen-thawed boar spermatozoa

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    • Potential sexing of spermatozoa using new antibodies to sperm surface proteins

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  • Concluding Keynote Lecture
  • • What research is needed to improve commercial pig reproduction

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