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Selective Fertilization in Fowls

L. C. Dunn
- 01 Jun 1927 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 5, pp 201-214
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An attempt was made to find out whether there was any selective preference in the union of sperm and egg cells in poultry, and it was found that self-fertilization was more effective or easier to make than cross fertilization.
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This article is published in Poultry Science.The article was published on 1927-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pollen & Ovule.

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The Collection of Spermatozoa from the Domestic Fowl and Turkey

W. H. Burrows, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1937 - 
TL;DR: A number of methods for obtaining semen from the fowl have been described, including mating a cock to a hen and immediately securing the fluid from the cloaca of the hen.
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The effect of ratios and numbers of spermatozoa mixed from two males on proportions of offspring

TL;DR: It appears that the relationship between sperm ratios and the proportions of offspring sired by two males competing heterospermically is dependent on the ratio of the number of competing spermatozoa but not on total number, season, breed of hen or the interval from insemination to fertilization.
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Studies of sperm competition in two species of muroid rodents

TL;DR: Results suggest that effects of mating order are highly species-specific and must be evaluated for each species before speculations are made regarding the effects of multiple matings, and females of the brown-recessive genotype mated with one male are only slightly less likely to become pregnant than wild-type females.
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The Relationship of in Vivo Sperm Storage Interval to Fertility and Embryonic Survival in the Chicken

TL;DR: The effect of time after insemination on fertility and embryonic loss has been studied for each day’s egg production by direct observation of chicken eggs after 18 days of incubation, showing a significant initial increase in fertility with sperm storage from day I (first day of fertileeggs) to day 3, followed by a few days of high fertility which was then followedby a linear decline through 18 days.
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Competitive Fertilization in the Fowl

TL;DR: One of the major economic losses in the field of poultry husbandry is the large numbers of infertile eggs among eggs produced for hatching purposes.
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