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In vitro fertilization program in white rhinoceros (2023)

Art

Zeitschriftenartikel / wissenschaftlicher Beitrag

Autoren

Hildebrandt, Thomas B (WE 18)

Holtze, Susanne

Colleoni, Silvia

Hermes, Robert

Stejskal, Jan

Lekolool, Isaac

Ndeereh, David

Omondi, Patrick

Kariuki, Linus

Mijele, Domnic

Mutisya, Samuel

Ngulu, Stephen

Diecke, Sebastian

Hayashi, Katsuhiko

Lazzari, Giovanna

de Mori, Barbara

Biasetti, Pierfrancesco

Quaggio, Alessandra

Galli, Cesare

Goeritz, Frank

Quelle

Reproduction

Bandzählung: 166

Heftzählung: 6

Seiten: 383 – 399

ISSN: 1470-1626

Sprache

Englisch

Verweise

URL (Volltext): https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/166/6/REP-23-0087.xml

DOI: 10.1530/REP-23-0087

Pubmed: 37877686

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Abstract / Zusammenfassung

The Anthropocene is marked by a dramatic biodiversity decline, particularly affecting the family Rhinocerotidae. Three of five extant species are listed as Critically Endangered (Sumatran, Javan, black rhinoceros), one as Vulnerable (Indian rhinoceros), and only one white rhino (WR) subspecies, the Southern white rhinoceros (SWR), after more than a century of successful protection is currently classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN, while numbers again are declining. Conversely, in 2008, the SWR's northern counterpart and second WR subspecies, the Northern white rhinoceros (NWR), was declared extinct in the wild. Safeguarding these vanishing keystone species urgently requires new reproductive strategies. We here assess one such strategy, the novel in vitro fertilization program in SWR and - for the first-time NWR - regarding health effects, donor-related, and procedural factors. Over the past 8 years, we performed 65 procedures in 22 white rhinoceros females (20 SWR and 2 NWR) comprising hormonal ovarian stimulation, ovum pick-up (OPU), in vitro oocyte maturation, fertilization, embryo culture, and blastocyst cryopreservation, at an efficiency of 1.0 ± 1.3 blastocysts per OPU, generating 22 NWR, 19 SWR and 10 SWR/NWR hybrid blastocysts for the future generation of live offspring.