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Semen characteristics of the Indian Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus murghi)
Bushra Allah Rakha,Muhammad Sajjad Ansari,Iftikhar Hussain,Muhammad Fahim Malik,Shamim Akhter,Elisabeth Blesbois +5 more
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Sperm concentration was better in the morning time, while the values for sperm viability and plasma membrane integrity were higher in the semen collected at evening time, and contrasted parameters of quality.Abstract:
The Indian Red Jungle Fowl is a wild native gallus subspecies of Southern Asia. Semen has never been studied in this species. In order to better know the male reproductive capacities, experiments were conducted to study the semen characteristics, impact of ejaculate collection frequencies, and timing of collection on sperm quality parameters. Mean sperm concentration 800 million/mL, total sperm per ejaculate (0.015 billion), motility (63.5 %), live/total sperm (92.4 %), intact acrosome (75.5 %), and plasma membrane integrity (89.2 %) were recorded. Percentage of abnormal sperm (head, mid-piece, and tail) was 8.1 % and recovered mainly mid-piece abnormalities. The motile sperm percentage was positively correlated with intact acrosomes (r = 0.34) and plasma membrane integrity (r = 0.41). Total sperm per ejaculate (billion) was maximum at 72 h of collection followed by 24 and 48 h of collection. Daily and weekly sperm production (billion) was found maximum at 24 h of collection compared to 12, 48, and 72 h of collection. Sperm motility was higher at 24, 48, and 72 h of collection compared to 12 h of collection, but the number of live sperm were higher at 12 h of collection compared to 24, 48, and 72 h. Sperm concentration was better in the morning time, while the values for sperm viability and plasma membrane integrity were higher in the semen collected at evening time. In conclusion, the Indian Red Jungle Fowl shows a semen production quantitatively relatively low for the species as compared to domestic chicken and contrasted parameters of quality. The semen production is affected by the frequency of collection with an optimum for a daily collection preferentially held in the evening period. These results may now be used for artificial insemination and conservation program.read more
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Cryopreservation of Indian red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus murghi) semen
TL;DR: The red fowl extender is superior in maintaining the quality of Indian red jungle fowl cryopreserved sperm compared to Beltsville poultry, Lake, EK, Tselutin poultry and chicken semen extender and shows the first fertility success obtained with cryo-banking purpose and artificial insemination practice.
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Cryopreservation of Indian red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus murghi) semen with polyvinylpyrrolidone.
Bushra Allah Rakha,Muhammad Sajjad Ansari,Shamim Akhter,Zartasha Zafar,Iftikhar Hussain,Julián Santiago-Moreno,Elisabeth Blesbois +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that 6% PVP maintained better post-taw quality and fertility of Indian red jungle fowl spermatozoa than glycerol and can be used in routine practice avoiding the contraceptive effects of Glycerol.
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Dimethyleacetamide improves the cryosurvivability of Indian red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus murghi) sperm.
Bushra Allah Rakha,Muhammad Sajjad Ansari,Shamim Akhter,Z. Zafar,A. Naseer,Iftikhar Hussain,Julián Santiago-Moreno,E. Blesbois +7 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that 6% DMA maintained higher post-thaw quality and fertility of Indian red jungle fowl semen and is a better replacement of glycerol.
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Comparison of Extenders for Liquid Storage of Indian Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus Gallus Murghi) Spermatozoa
Bushra Allah Rakha,Muhammad Sajjad Ansari,Iftikhar Hussain,Maqsood Anwar,Shamim Akhter,E. Blesbois +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the Turkey semen extender can be used efficiently for the liquid storage of Indian Red Jungle Fowl spermatozoa at 5 °C.
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