ra0003s013 | Symposium 3: Risks and opportunities in wildlife reproduction | SRF2016
Hildebrandt Thomas Bernd
Initially, zoo-based research was dominated by considerations of husbandry, but more recently new ideas, particularly the use advanced imaging techniques combined with assisted reproduction technologies (ART) have been incorporated. Progressive global habitat destruction and fragmentation is causing dramatic population declines and even the extinction of many threatened species. The complex management of captive populations involves the maximization of genetic variation. Thus ...