EDITORIAL: Special issue on “Recent Trends in Camel Research

The camel (dromedary and Bactrian) is more and more a study object for scientists around the world with an increasing number of publications which are devoted to him either on its biology or on its performances, its health and its place in the desert ecosystems. The success of the last ISOCARD (International Society on Camelid Research and Development) conference at Muscat (Sultanate of Oman) testifies to the dynamism of the camel sciences and to the growing interest of the scientific world for a species remaining marginal in the research, including in the countries where the camel plays an undeniable economic and environmental part.