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Contribution of boars to reproductive performance and paternity after homospermic and heterospermic artificial insemination.
Reproduction, fertility, and development - 1 Sept 2015
Ferreira C E R, Sávio D B, Guarise A C, Flach M J, Gastal G D A, Gonçalves A O, Dellagostin O A, Alonso R V, Bianchi I, Corcini C D, Lucia T
Abstract excerpt
Heterospermic AI is commonly used in swine despite preventing precise evaluation of individual boar fertility. The present study compared the contribution of four boars (A, B, C and D) for reproductive performance and for paternity using homospermic and heterospermic (AB, AC, AD, BC, BD and CD) AI (n=204 for homospermic AI; n=307 for heterospermic AI). Blood samples from the four boars, from all sows inseminated...
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