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].