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. 2017 Mar 19;63(3):279–287. doi: 10.1262/jrd.2016-160

Table 3. Semen quality of three Japanese Black bulls.

Bull Age (months) Motility Concentration
(/ml)
DNA damage by
TUNEL * (%)
IVF {%, (no. of embryos, r)}
JA 159.1 73 a 1.2 × 109 2.3 a* 22.8 a (34/149, 3)
JB 75.3 45 b 1.0 × 109 6.9 b* 8.9 b (24/284, 6)
JC 19.9 95 0.4 × 109 6.9 2.0 c (4/177, 4)

No. of embryos: number of blastocyst-stage embryos for a certain number of oocytes cultured after in vitro fertilization. r: repeat number for IVF experiment. a, b, c The values with different superscripts within the same column are significantly different (P < 0.05). a*, b* Takeda, et al., 2015 [13].