The Animal–Human Interfaces in Physiology of Reproduction: The Research to Improve Performance, as well as Animal and Human Health

Dear Colleagues, The physiology of animal reproduction is one of the oldest and most recognized fields in scientific research, but it is always evolving. The curiosity of researchers in animal reproduction science is ancestral and modern at the same time, as it responds to different needs that intertwine and overlap seamlessly. Advances in reproductive physiology can improve animal welfare, increase production and livestock sustainability, affect the quality of foods of animal origin such as milk and colostrum, and help wildlife conservation and management. Finally, several species, ranging from lower vertebrates to large animals, represent appropriate models to study human reproductive disorders such as infertility and pregnancy-related disorders. The research in this field therefore has ethical and welfare implications for the animal as well as socio-economic and health implications for the human being. Thus, your research in animal physiology reproduction could be placed in one of these animal–human interfaces. We invite reviews and original research papers that address the basic and applied research in the physiology of animal reproduction. This field could extend to the reproductive management of companion and farm animals; the influence of nutrition on reproduction; the relationships between reproduction, breast function, and newborn development; the quality of the animal product; the welfare of the livestock or wild species; the conservation of biodiversity; and human reproductive disorders. However, it probably will be linked to both animal and human health.