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Provedor de dados: | 96
País: | Brazil
Título: | Testicular shape and andrological aspects of young Nellore bulls under extensive farming
Autores: | Siqueira,Jeanne Broch; Oba,Eunice; Pinho,Rogério Oliveira; Guimarães,Simone Eliza Facioni; Miranda Neto,Tamires; Guimarães,José Domingos.
Data: | 2012-03-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Bovine; Semen; Testicular measurements.
Resumo: | Aiming to determine the relationship between the frequency of testicular shape and the andrological aspects in young Nellore bulls, 18,676 animals were assessed. All andrological examinations were performed between the years 2000 and 2008. Animals were classified as able for breeding, able for breeding in natural mating system, unable for breeding and discarded. The testicular shape was classified as long, fairly long, oval-long, spherical-oval, and spherical. The analysis of Pearson correlations was performed for testicular shape with scrotal circumference, testicular volume, progressive motility, sperm vigor, major defects, minor defects and total defects. Testicles with oval shape prevailed (99.61%). It was obseved that 76.34; 66.34; 64.34; 58.33 and 50.00% of the animals were classified as sound for breeding for shapes long, fairly long, oval-long, spherical-oval, and spherical, respectively. Correlations between testicular shape with scrotal circumference, testicular volume, progressive motility, sperm vigor, major, minor and total defects were 0.26; 0.08; 0.00; 0.11; -0.02; 0.02 and -0.01, respectively. Testicular shape had no influence upon the andrological examination results. Testicles of long shape were prevalent within the population.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000300020
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-35982012000300020
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.41 n.3 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess