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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Chem. 2009 Jan;390(1):67–73. doi: 10.1515/BC.2009.011

Table 1.

Quantitative analysis of sperm morphology

% Straight % Hairpin % Angled % Curled
WT 64.7 ± 4.4 23.7 ± 5.0 6.3 ± 1.2 5.3 ± 1.2

Apoer2[ex19] 63.3 ± 4.4 23.3 ± 4.1 7.7 ± 1.2 5.7 ± 2.3
Apoer2[Δex19] 62.0 ± 4.2 18.7 ± 1.3 3.0 ± 1.7 16.3 ± 5.4
Apoer2[Stop] 57.7 ± 6.4 20.0 ± 7.1 10.3 ± 1.3 12.0 ± 0.6
Apoer2[Dab-] 17.7 ± 5.4 * 36.3 ± 4.1 11.0 ± 1.5 35.0 ± 3.1 *
Apoer2 KO 11.0 ± 1.7 * 66.3 ± 2.3 * 6.0 ± 0.0 16.7 ± 3.4

One hundred spermatozoa from each of three animals per genotype were scored according to morphological category. (mean ± S.E.)

*

P<0.005