Conserved and breed-specific differences in the cervical transcriptome of sheep with divergent fertility at the follicular phase of a natural oestrus cycle

Abstract Background The outcome of cervical artificial insemination (AI) with frozen-thawed semen in sheep is limited by the inability of sperm to traverse the cervix of some ewe breeds. Previous research has demonstrated that cervical sperm transport is dependent on ewe breed, as sperm can traverse...

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Main Authors: Laura Abril-Parreño, Kieran G. Meade, Anette Kristine Krogenæs, Xavier Druart, Sean Fair, Paul Cormican
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-10-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-08060-9