Our objective was to compare the effect of treatment with GnRH at first (G1) Breeding-Ovsynch portion a Double-Ovsynch (DO) protocol human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) on pregnancies per artificial insemination (P/AI) in lactating dairy cows. In experiment 1, cows (n = 1,932) submitted DO for timed (TAI) 2 commercial farms were blocked by parity (primiparous vs. multiparous) and randomly assign...

The objectives of this study were to determine whether calves produced by sexed sperm differed from controls and to what extent the sex ratio of calves was altered by the sexing procedure. Data were collected from 1,169 calves produced from sperm sexed by flow cytometry/cell sorting after staining with Hoechst 33342, and 793 calves produced from control sperm during breeding trials between 1997...

We can ask whether there anything it is distinctively like to be female or male (a question about sex). And we feminine masculine gender). I think the answer both these questions “Obviously yes”. Why yes? why obviously? Consciousness gendered, and obviously because political realities of what masculine, feminine, are different. Moreover, consciousness sexed too, sexed, physical male, female, th...

Predetermination of sex in livestock offspring is in great demand and is of critical importance to providing for the most efficient production of the world's food supply. With the changes that have taken place in animal agriculture over the past generation the application of sex preselection to production systems becomes increasingly necessary. The current technology is based on the well-known ...

The yield of flow cytometric sorted Xand Y-chromosome-bearing sperm in a given time period is an important factor in the strategies used for fertilization and the production of sex-preselected offspring. This yield is dependent on the efficiency with which the modified flow cytometer/cell sorter analyzes the DNA of spermatozoa. The efficiency is directly related to the number of sperm with the ...

We consider in this work a model for aggregation, where the coalescing particles initially have a certain number of potential links (called arms) which are used to perform coagulations. This model is sexed, is the sense that there are male and female arms: two particles may coagulate only if one has an available male arm, and the other has an available female arm. After a coagulation, the used ...

A prospective study of human reproduction was conducted in Tamilnadu State, South India, from 1969 to 1975. This paper reports twinning rates and relates these to maternal age, parity, and consanguinity. Birth weights and other dimensions at birth and infant mortality are also studied. The overall twinning rate was 1 in 115 births. Dizygotic twinning rates increased significantly with maternal ...

It is estimated that as many as 30,000 offspring, mostly cattle, have been produced in the past 5 years using AI or some other means of transport with spermatozoa sexed by flow cytometric sperm sorting and DNA as the marker of differentiation. It is well documented that the only marker in sperm that can be effectively used for the separation of X- and Y-chromosome bearing spermatozoa is DNA. Th...