Uncovering sperm metabolome to discover biomarkers for bull fertility

Abstract Background Subfertility decreases the efficiency of the cattle industry because artificial insemination employs spermatozoa from a single bull to inseminate thousands of cows. Variation in bull fertility has been demonstrated even among those animals exhibiting normal sperm numbers, motilit...

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Main Authors: E. B. Menezes, A. L. C. Velho, F. Santos, T. Dinh, A. Kaya, E. Topper, A. A. Moura, E. Memili
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-019-6074-6