Livestock and animal science

Determinants of survival of the bovine blastocyst to cryopreservation stress: treatment with colony stimulating factor 2 during the morula-to-blastocyst transition and embryo sex

Colony-stimulating factor 2 (CSF2) is an important maternal regulator of embryonic development. Earlier research indicates that CSF2 can regulate genes involved in cellular stress responses and block apoptosis...

Authors: Froylan Sosa, Jeremy Block, Yao Xiao and Peter J. Hansen

Citation: CABI Agriculture and Bioscience 2020 1:12

Content type: Research Published on: 3 September 2020
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Current status of African swine fever

African swine fever is a serious viral disease of domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boars that poses a major threat to pig production. For more than thirty years after its discovery in East Africa it was limited...

Authors: Mary Louise Penrith

Citation: CABI Agriculture and Bioscience 2020 1:11

Content type: Review Published on: 5 August 2020
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