Reproductive and Nutritional Management on Ovarian Response and Embryo Quality on Rabbit Does
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2014
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Lorenzo, P., García-García, R., Árias-Álvarez, M. and Rebollar, P. (2014), Reproductive and Nutritional Management on Ovarian Response and Embryo Quality on Rabbit Does. Reprod Dom Anim, 49: 49-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/rda.12367
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Rabbit does in modern rabbitries are under intensive reproductive rhythms. Females are high milk producers with high energetic expenses due to the extensive overlap between lactation and gestation. This situation leads to a negative energy balance with a mobilization of body fat especially in primiparous rabbit does. Poor body condition and poor health status severely affect the reproductive features (fertility rate and lifespan of the doe as well as ovarian physiology). This paper reviews some reproductive and nutritional approaches used in the last years to improve the reproductive performance of rabbit females, mainly focusing on the influence on ovarian response and embryo quality and with emphasis on epigenetic modifications in pre-implantation embryos and offspring consequences.