The use of sexed semen in dairy and beef farms ensures the production of animals of the
desired sex, resulting in a reduction of costs and an improvement of environmental …

The sex of the animals is of paramount importance in many animal production systems. This
is particularly evident in the production of milk or in breeding programs focused on the …

The optimization and implementation of artificial insemination (AI) in sheep is necessary to
increase the livestock productivity through enhanced control of reproductive function. Sperm …

To date sperm-oviduct interactions have largely been investigated under in vitro conditions.
Therefore we set out to characterize the behaviour of bovine spermatozoa within the sperm …

Sperm cryopreservation has become an indispensable tool in reproductive biology.
However, frozen/thawed semen has a short lifespan due to loss of sperm cell integrity. To …

The microfluidic dielectrophoretic (MF-DEP) chip is a new, economical and readily-available
technology that might be used to enrich X-sperm for increasing female offspring in dairy …

Background Centrifugation is routinely employed in handling the ejaculates of some
species, but it is not part of the commonly used protocols in ram. However, the development …

Background: Sex selection of sperm by separating X-and Y-chromosome bearing
spermatozoa is critical for efficiently obtaining the desired sex of animal offspring in the …

Controlling the sex of livestock offspring is a great interest of animal farmers for economic
reasons. Sexed semen of desired animals has been in great demand over the years and …

[ES] La optimización de la inseminación artificial (AI) en la especie ovina es fundamental
para aumentar su implementación, incrementando así los rendimientos productivos y la …