Article
Past, present and future perspectives on sexing sperm
2003-09-01
Abstract excerpt
Development of flow cytometry for sorting mammalian sperm according to their sex chromosomes began in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This technology, which has recently been commercialized for bovine sperm, is based on the differences in DNA content between X- and Y-chromosome-bearing sperm. Under ideal conditions, 5000 live bovine sperm of each sex can be sorted per second at 90% accuracy. Pregnancy rates of 50%...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 25276317-a5e9-5b7c-9804-0da8723663c7
- DOI
- 10.4141/a03-022
