Monday, 21 July 2025

Effect of Environmental Stress on Animal Reproduction and Adaptation Strategies | Chapter 3 | Research Perspective on Biological Science Vol. 6

 

The process of reproduction is an important physiological system for the development of species, linked to stress, that has classified into two groups such as environmental stress and handling. Environmental stress includes room temperature, cold and/or hot and cold, wind and moisture. The aim of this review is to present some aspects of the environmental stress effect on the reproduction of farm animals. It specifically explores the neuroendocrinology of stress, categorises the different types of stress, highlights how stress affects reproductive processes, and provides recommendations for mitigating environmental stress in animal production systems. Stress is the result of confinement and an ambitious vision, and uncaring by human, who are in the interest of improving production, have participated unconsciously, by manipulating animal production in its way, even trying to tame new species, impossible to adapt to our environment healthy. Environmental stress negatively affects reproduction in both sexes: it reduces fertility, impairs oocyte and embryo quality in females, and diminishes sperm quantity and quality in males. At present, it has been concluded that stress is one of the environmental factors that affect handling and decrease the production of livestock, it is considered that the main factor which should be controlled in units animal production, since it is closely related to pathogens and infectious agents that may try to the health of animals. Finally, some recommendations are outlined to lessen stress for heat, by handling and by feeding.

 

Author(s) Details

Alejandro Córdova Izquierdo
Department of Agricultural and Animal Production, Xochimilco Metropolitan Autonomous University Unit, Mexico.

 

Edmundo Abel Villa Mancera
Veterinary School, Benemerita Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.

 

Ma de Lourdes Juárez Mosqueda
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico.

 

Armando Gómez Vázquez

Academic Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, México.

 

Jaime Olivares Pérez
Veterinary Academic Unit, Autonomous University of Guerrero, México.

 

Pedro Sánchez Aparicio
Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, UAEM, Mexico.

 

Raúl Sánchez Sáncez
Department de Reproducción Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y
Alimentaria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ctra de la Coruña km 5,9 - 28040 Madrid, Spain.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/rpbs/v6/1507

 

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