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Genome-wide association studies for sperm traits in Assaf sheep breed.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Feb 2021
Serrano M, Ramón M, Calvo J H, Jiménez M Á, Freire F, Vázquez J M, Arranz J J
Abstract excerpt
Sperm quality traits routinely collected by artificial insemination (AI) center for rams progeny test are related with the capacity to produce sperm doses for AI and, in more or less grade, with males' fertility. Low-quality ejaculates are unuseful to perform AI sperm doses, which suppose high economic loses for the AI center. Moreover, sperm quality traits have low heritability values which make traditional...
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