Suitability of the intact acrosome method for the prediction of fertility in bovine artificial insemination.
The average percentages of sperm with intact acrosomes in eight batches of frozen-thawed semen from each of 17 bulls were compared with the non-return rates to artificial insemination by these bulls achieved over a period of three years. Despite the fact that the bulls could be categorised into three statistically significantly different groups according to their non-return rates, there was no significant correlation between the percentage of intact acrosomes and the non-return rates of the 17 bulls.
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Somerset Cattle Breeding Centre, Ilminster.
D000177:Acrosome / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000502:physiology*; D005298:Fertility / Q000502:physiology*; D007315:Insemination, Artificial / Q000662:veterinary*; D008297:Male; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology