Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L.
Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate semen quality in the two most popular colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L., blue and white, based on ejaculate parameters, acrosin activity and analysis of sperm morphology. The research material consisted of ejaculates collected once by man...
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crwiley:10.1111/asj.13257 2024-06-02T07:54:51+00:00 Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L. Stasiak, Karolina Kondracki, Stanisław Iwanina, Maria 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/asj.13257 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fasj.13257 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/asj.13257 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/asj.13257 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Animal Science Journal volume 90, issue 9, page 1120-1126 ISSN 1344-3941 1740-0929 journal-article 2019 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/asj.13257 2024-05-03T10:40:36Z Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate semen quality in the two most popular colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L., blue and white, based on ejaculate parameters, acrosin activity and analysis of sperm morphology. The research material consisted of ejaculates collected once by manual stimulation from 20 one‐year‐old male Arctic foxes (10 individuals of the blue morph and 10 of the white morph). Ejaculates were evaluated in terms of volume, sperm concentration, total number of spermatozoa and the percentage of spermatozoa with major and minor defects. The study revealed that male blue Arctic foxes produce ejaculates with much higher concentration (148.75 × 10 6 /ml) and total number of spermatozoa (98.16 × 10 6 ) compared to white Arctic foxes (42.88 × 10 6 /ml and 35.2 × 10 6 respectively). The level of acrosin activity from white foxes seemed to be higher compared to blue foxes but the difference was not statistically confirmed. Semen from Arctic foxes is characterized by high inter‐individual variability in sperm morphology. The frequency of morphological changes in sperm from Arctic foxes does not significantly depend on ejaculate volume, sperm concentration or the total number of spermatozoa in the ejaculate, but is associated with acrosin activity. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alopex lagopus Arctic Fox Arctic Wiley Online Library Arctic Animal Science Journal 90 9 1120 1126 |
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Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate semen quality in the two most popular colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L., blue and white, based on ejaculate parameters, acrosin activity and analysis of sperm morphology. The research material consisted of ejaculates collected once by manual stimulation from 20 one‐year‐old male Arctic foxes (10 individuals of the blue morph and 10 of the white morph). Ejaculates were evaluated in terms of volume, sperm concentration, total number of spermatozoa and the percentage of spermatozoa with major and minor defects. The study revealed that male blue Arctic foxes produce ejaculates with much higher concentration (148.75 × 10 6 /ml) and total number of spermatozoa (98.16 × 10 6 ) compared to white Arctic foxes (42.88 × 10 6 /ml and 35.2 × 10 6 respectively). The level of acrosin activity from white foxes seemed to be higher compared to blue foxes but the difference was not statistically confirmed. Semen from Arctic foxes is characterized by high inter‐individual variability in sperm morphology. The frequency of morphological changes in sperm from Arctic foxes does not significantly depend on ejaculate volume, sperm concentration or the total number of spermatozoa in the ejaculate, but is associated with acrosin activity. |
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Stasiak, Karolina Kondracki, Stanisław Iwanina, Maria Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L. |
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Stasiak, Karolina Kondracki, Stanisław Iwanina, Maria |
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Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L. |
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Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L. |
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Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L. |
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Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L. |
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Assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus L. |
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assessment of chosen semen characteristics of two colour morphs of the arctic fox alopex lagopus l. |
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