**Meet the editor**

Alemayhu Lemma, DVM, PhD born in Ethiopia in January, 1967, graduated with DVM from Addis Ababa University (AAU) in 1990. He subsequently worked as a field veterinarian and later joined AAU in 1995. He completed his PhD studies in Animal Reproduction from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2004. Since then, he is working in the same university with continued

researches in livestock reproduction mainly focusing on ovarian activities, AI, embryo transfer, and semen cryopreservation. He has authored/co-authored several scientific publications and contributed a chapter in a book on Artificial Insemination in farm Animals. He has over 20 years of expereince in veterinay science. He is currently head of the veterinary teaching hospital, and an associate professor in animal reproduction at AAU.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Assessment 1**

**In cattle 39**

Chapter 1 **The Importance of Semen Quality in AI Programs and Advances in Laboratory Analyses for Semen Characteristics**

Arruda and Eneiva Carla Carvalho Celeghini

**Semen Cryopreservation in Swine 17**

Tantasuparuk and Nutthee Am-In

Chapter 2 **Improvement of Semen Quality by Feed Supplement and**

Chapter 3 **The Use Of Sex-Sorted Sperm For Reproductive Programs**

Chapter 4 **Fertility Results After Artificial Insemination with Bull Semen Frozen with Low Density Lipoprotein Extender 63** L. Briand-Amirat, D. Bencharif, S. Pineau and D. Tainturier

Rita Payan-Carreira, Paulo Borges, Fernando Mir and Alain

Campos Filho and Pietro Sampaio Baruselli

Chapter 5 **Nonsteroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs to Improve**

**Fertility in Cows 73**

Fontbonne

Zahid Paksoy and Hüseyin Daş

Chapter 6 **Molecular Markers in Sperm Analysis 93**

Mongkol Techakumphu, Kakanang Buranaamnuay, Wichai

Gustavo Guerino Macedo, Manoel Francisco de Sá Filho, Rodrigo Vasconcelos Sala, Márcio Ferreira Mendanha, Evanil Pires de

Leticia Zoccolaro Oliveira, Fabio Morato Monteiro, Rubens Paes de
