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. 2015 Dec 21;5:18538. doi: 10.1038/srep18538

Table 1. Fertility AI-outcomes and seminal plasma total antioxidant capacity (SP-TAC, mmol/L) of the liquid semen of 18 boars (2,500 × 106 sperm/dose).

Boars SP-TAC (mean ± SEM) Sows inseminated (n°) Farrowing Rate (%) Total Piglets Born (mean ± SEM) Fertility Indexa
1 0.91 ± 0.04 225 84.00 ± 2.68 13.50 ± 0.28 11.34
2 0.90 ± 0.01 382 86.65 ± 1.70 12.98 ± 0.16 11.25
3 0.77 ± 0.06 456 84.43 ± 1.88 12.79 ± 0.16 10.80
4 0.72 ± 0.01 801 86.64 ± 1.29 13.92 ± 0.12 12.06
5 0.71 ± 0.01 294 85.71 ± 2.25 13.91 ± 0.24 11.92
6 0.67 ± 0.04 546 89.01 ± 1.47 13.96 ± 0.14 12.43
7 0.66 ± 0.05 163 90.18 ± 1.99 14.06 ± 0.27 12.68
8 0.66 ± 0.02 350 90.86 ± 2.75 13.87 ± 0.15 12.60
9 0.66 ± 0.02 487 91.79 ± 1.50 13.74 ± 0.16 12.61
10 0.61 ± 0.03 579 87.91 ± 1.57 12.94 ± 0.15 11.38
11 0.52 ± 0.04 111 88.29 ± 3.64 12.44 ± 0.32 10.98
12 0.52 ± 0.02 107 84.11 ± 4.53 12.64 ± 0.30 10.64
13 0.51 ± 0.02 140 87.86 ± 3.45 13.27 ± 0.29 11.66
14 0.46 ± 0.01 182 83.52 ± 3.00 12.48 ± 0.31 10.42
15 0.44 ± 0.06 131 83.21 ± 2.80 11.80 ± 0.29 9.82
16 0.44 ± 0.01 191 83.25 ± 3.47 13.13 ± 0.22 10.93
17 0.34 ± 0.02 189 83.07 ± 2.78 13.21 ± 0.24 10.97
18 0.29 ± 0.02 212 82.60 ± 3.19 12.06 ± 0.36 10.05

Boars were hierarchically grouped as high (1-10) and low (11-18) SP-TAC values.

aThe total number of piglets born as a proportion of the number of sows inseminated by each boar.