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Proportion of males with lower fertility spermatozoa estimated from heterospermic insemination
1Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Abstract:
This study was designed to evaluate the proportion of males with spermatozoa detectably less fertile than the spermatozoa from other males. Previously unpublished and published data from heterospermic trials involving insemination with equal numbers of spermatozoa and resulting in at least 11 offspring from each pair of males were analyzed. The proportion of pairs in which the males sired equivalent numbers of offspring were 0.42, 0.18, 0.33 and 0.09 for trials with fresh boar semen, liquid-stored boar semen, frozen bull semen and fresh rabbit semen, respectively. The calculated proportion of males with less fertile spermatozoa were 0.36, 0.57, 0.42 and 0.70, respectively. Although these differences in fertility would not be apparent in some management systems, a high proportion of ejaculates had spermatozoa that were detectably less fertile.
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