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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Birth of pouch young after artificial insemination in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) |
Author: | Paris, D. Taggart, D. Shaw, G. Temple-Smith, P. Renfree, M. |
Citation: | Biology of Reproduction, 2005; 72(2):451-459 |
Publisher: | Soc Study Reproduction |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
ISSN: | 0006-3363 1529-7268 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Damien B.B.P. Paris; David A. Taggart; Geoff Shaw; Peter D. Temple-Smith and Marilyn B. Renfree |
Abstract: | Timing of artificial insemination (AI) in marsupials is critical because fertilization must occur before mucin coats the oocyte during passage through the oviduct. In this study, timing and the site of insemination were examined to develop AI in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Birth and postpartum (p.p.) estrus was synchronized in 46 females. Epididymal spermatozoa (n=4) or semen collected by electroejaculation (n=42) were inseminated early (4-21 h p.p.) into the urogenital sinus (n=7), the anterior vaginal culs de sac (n=7), the uterus by transcervical catheter (n=5), or the uterus by injection (intrauterine artificial insemination, IUAI) (n=5). A further 16 females were inseminated late (19-48 h p.p.) by IUAI. All females were monitored for birth. A third group of six females was inseminated late (21-54 h p.p.) by IUAI and 0.4-6.6 h later, sperm had reached the oviduct in all animals. In total, an oocyte to which spermatozoa were attached was recovered and two young were born after IUAI using epididymal (n=1) or electroejaculated (n=2) spermatozoa, but no young resulted from insemination at other sites. Two females were successfully inseminated at 43 and 47 h p.p., later than most other animals, and the third was inseminated much earlier (18 h p.p.) but with highly motile spermatozoa. These young represent the first macropodids born by AI and the first marsupials conceived using epididymal spermatozoa. |
Keywords: | Vagina Epididymis Spermatozoa Semen Animals Animals, Newborn Macropodidae Progesterone Estrogens Culture Media Semen Preservation Insemination, Artificial Electric Stimulation Estrus Synchronization Ovum Transport Microsatellite Repeats Pregnancy Female Male |
DOI: | 10.1095/biolreprod.104.033282 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod.104.033282 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Earth and Environmental Sciences publications |
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