Springer published the book entitled "Boar Reproduction. Fundamentals and New Biotechnological Trends"

Springer, one of the most prestigious international editors today published the book entitled "Boar Reproduction. Fundamentals and New Biotechnological Trends", which is basically the result from research activity that TechnoSperm groups together with his closest colleagues has conducted since 1987.

Sergi Bonet, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Girona and Director of TechnoSperm; Isabel Casas, Associate Professor at the same university, William V. Holt, Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom); and Marc Yeste, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery (Autonomous University of Barcelona) have served as Editors of the Book. In addition, a total of 17 authors have took part in this project written in English.

The book has twelve chapters and is organised in three parts, about boar within the male and female genitals tracts, and the evaluation and improvement techniques of boar semen and the relevance of Artificial Insemination in porcine species.

This Book is available as printed (ISBN 978-3-642-35048-1) or electronic (eBook: ISBN 978-3-642-35049-8) in bookshops and through Springer link.

Book contents are as follows:

Part I Boar Spermatozoa Within the Male Genital Tract
Chapter 1 The Boar Spermatozoon (M. Dolors Briz and Anna Fabrega).
Chapter 2 Biological Aspects of the Mature Boar Spermatozoon (Joan E. Rodriguez-Gil).
Chapter 3 The Boar Reproductive System (Sergi Bonet, Estela Garcia and Lilian Sepulveda).
Chapter 4 Factors Affecting Boar Reproduction, Testis Function, and Sperm Quality (Elisabeth Pinart and Marta Puigmulé).

Part II Boar Spermatozoa Within the Female Genital Tract
Chapter 5 Boar Spermatozoa Within the Uterine Environment (Marc Yeste and Miriam Castillo-Martin).
Chapter 6 Boar Spermatozoa Within the Oviductal Environment (I): Sperm Reservoir (Marc Yeste).
Chapter 7 Boar Spermatozoa Within the Oviductal Environment (II): Sperm Capacitation (Marc Yeste).
Chapter 8 Boar Spermatozoa Within the Oviductal Environment (III): Fertilisation (Marc Yeste).

Part III Artificial Insemination (AI) Technologies in Pigs
Chapter 9 The Boar Ejaculate: Sperm Function and Seminal Plasma Analyses (Silvia Sancho and Ingrid Vilagran).
Chapter 10 Quality Improvement of Boar Seminal Doses (Eva Bussalleu and Eva Torner).
Chapter 11 Gene Banking: The Freezing Strategy (Isabel Casas and Eva Flores).
Chapter 12 Artificial Insemination in Boar Reproduction (Joan E. Rodriguez-Gil and Efren Estrada).

March 14, 2013