Effect of the ovulatory cycle on oviductal sperm storage in the domestic fowl.
Anovulatory domestic hens (pregnant mare serum-treated) and normally cyclic domestic hens were artificially inseminated with 0.034 ml of pooled semen. A subsequent microscopic assessment of the uterovaginal sperm storage glands on days 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 post-insemination indicated that the sperm glands emptied over time in the normally cyclic hens, but not in the anovulatory hens. The data suggest that events associated with ovulation and/or oviposition are important to the sperm gland emptying process.
Bushman
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Department of Poultry Science Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA.
Van Krey
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Denbow
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Siegel
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