Applications and cost benefits of sexed semen in pasture-based dairy production systems

Sexed semen technology is now commercially available in many countries around the world, and is primarily used in dairy cattle breeding. Sperm are sorted by flow cytometry on the basis of a 4% difference in DNA content between sperm containing X and Y chromosomes. Despite reliably producing a 90% ge...

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Main Authors: S.T. Butler, I.A. Hutchinson, A.R. Cromie, L. Shalloo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731114000664