The relationship between sperm quality in cool-shipped semen and embryo recovery rate in horses.

abstract

• The relationship between the quality of cool-shipped stallion semen and fertility has not been adequately described. This study evaluated sperm quality of cool-shipped semen from 459 ejaculates (N=130 stallions) that were used for insemination of 196 embryo donor mares (n=496 estrous cycles). Embryo recovery rate (ERR; %) increased, as all sperm measures (e.g., motility, viability, DNA quality, morphology, concentration, and total number) increased. Threshold values are reported for each sperm quality measure (e.g., total sperm motility65%) that separate two ERR groups (e.g., average: 50% ERR; high: 65% ERR).

authors

• Love, Charles
• Varner, Dickson

published proceedings

• Theriogenology

author list (cited authors)

• Love, C. C., Noble, J. K., Standridge, S. A., Bearden, C. T., Blanchard, T. L., Varner, D. D., & Cavinder, C. A.

citation count

• 20

complete list of authors

• Love, CC||Noble, JK||Standridge, SA||Bearden, CT||Blanchard, TL||Varner, DD||Cavinder, CA

publication date

• January 2015

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• THERIOGENOLOGY  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Cold Temperature
• Embryo Donor
• Embryo Transfer
• Female
• Fertility
• Horses
• Insemination, Artificial
• Male
• Semen
• Semen Analysis
• Semen Preservation
• Specimen Handling
• Sperm Motility
• Sperm Quality
• Spermatozoa
• Stallion
• Tissue And Organ Harvesting

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2015.08.008

start page

• 1587

end page

• 1593.e4

volume

• 84

issue

• 9

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.theriogenology.2015.08.008