Study of fertilising capacity of spermatozoa after heterospermic insemination in rabbit using DNA markers |
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Authors: | Vicente José-Salvador Viudes de Castro María-Pilar Lavara Raquel Mocé Eva |
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Institution: | Laboratorio de Biotecnología de la Reproducción, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera 14, 46071 Valencia, Spain. jvicent@dca.upv.es |
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Abstract: | The aim of this study was to evaluate the fertilising capacity of males belonging to a rabbit line selected for growth rate using heterospermic insemination and genetic markers. Semen from five males was used to make pools of three of them, and to perform homospermic insemination. Insemination was carried out in receptive multiparous lactating does with 6 million spermatozoa per insemination dose. DNA from 360 young rabbits born from heterospermic insemination, 5 sires and 42 does were amplified to nine microsatellite loci for determination of the offspring rate per male. Although each female was inseminated with the same number of spermatozoa from each male (2 million from a total dose of 6 million), sperm from one male was always dominant, notable differences being observed in the offspring among the males with similar semen quality (83-68% from dominant male versus 31-0% from non-dominant, P<0.05 ). |
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