Field testing the influence of sperm competition based on sperm mobility in breeder turkey toms.

doi:10.1080/0007166031000085517

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Field testing the influence of sperm competition based on sperm mobility in breeder turkey toms.

British poultry science - 1 Jul 2003

Donoghue A M, Kirby J D, Froman D P, Lerner S P, Crouch A N, King L M, Donoghue D J, Sonstegard T S

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1. Commercial reproduction of turkeys relies on pooling of semen from multiple males for inseminations. Understanding how sperm characteristics influence paternity under commercial breeding conditions is important to improving production efficiency. 2. The objective of this study was to evaluate progeny production of individual toms following commercial practices of pooling semen to determine if sperm mobility...

Topics

Animals
Breeding
Female
Fertilization
Genotype
Insemination, Artificial
Male
Microsatellite Repeats
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Spectrophotometry
Sperm Motility
Sperm-Ovum Interactions
Turkeys

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PMID: 12964635
DOI: 10.1080/0007166031000085517

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