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Fertility Assessment in Sorraia Stallions by Sperm-Fish and Fkbp6 Genotyping.
Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene - 1 Jun 2016
Kjöllerström H J, do Mar Oom M, Chowdhary B P, Raudsepp T
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The Sorraia, a critically endangered indigenous Iberian horse breed, is characterized by low genetic variability, high rate of inbreeding, bad sperm quality and subfertility. Here, we studied 11 phenotypically normal but subfertile Sorraia stallions by karyotyping, sex chromosome sperm-FISH and molecular analysis of FKBP6 - a susceptibility locus for impaired acrosome reaction (IAR). The stallions had normal...
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