In vitro fertilization assays were performed to investigate their validity in evaluating artificial insemination (AI) bull fertility. A total of 1,532 oocytes, collected from ovaries at the abattoir, were subsequently used in a 4 x 6 x 2 factorial design: 4 doses of heparin added into the capacitation and fertilization medium (0; 0.05; 0.1 and 0.2 micrograms/ml), 6 different bulls with known on...

Mammalian spermatozoa experience osmotic stress when the glycerol is added to the cells before freezing and removal from the cells after thawing. To minimize osmotic damage, alternative cryoprotectants, having lower molecular weights and greater membrane permeability than glycerol, were evaluated to determine their effectiveness for cryopreserving bull spermatozoa. The primary goal of this stud...

Ecological and life history characteristics such as population size, dispersal pattern, and mating system mediate the influence of genetic drift and gene flow on population subdivision. Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) differ markedly in spawning location, population size and mating system. Based on these differences, we predicted that bull trou...

Consuming sugar-free Red Bull energy drink before exercise has become increasingly popular among exercising individuals. The main purported active ingredient in sugar-free Red Bull is caffeine, which has been shown to increase aerobic exercise performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of sugar-free Red Bull energy drink on high-intensity run time-to-exhaustion in young...

An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that bull calves of a larger, faster growing breed of cattle exhibit greater secretory activity of anabolic pituitary hormones than bull calves of a smaller, slower growing breed. Calves of both breeds were raised under similar conditions and maintained on the same diet for approximately 4 weeks before the blood sampling period. Simmental bull ...

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Chinese stock markets have experienced an extraordinary bull market since Jan 2006, which attracted global eyes. We investigate the statistical properties of the indices’ log-return r(t) for the bull market (Jan 2006–Oct 2007) and the previous bear market (Jan 2001–Dec 2005). Here we report three peculiar features of r(t): (i) the cumulative distribution function curve of r(t) in the bull marke...

Microsatellite DNA variation was assayed among 383 bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) from 20 Pacific coastal localities from the Skeena River (central British Columbia) to the Olympic Peninsula (western Washington State). An average of 1.7 alleles was resolved per population and heterozygosity averaged 0.35. Twenty-six fish were identified as bull trout × Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma) hybri...

Computer-assisted sperm analyzers (CASA) have become the standard tool for evaluating sperm motility because they provide objective results for thousands of mammalian spermatozoa. Mammalian spermatozoa experience osmotic stress when the glycerol is added to the cells prior to freezing and removal from the cells after thawing. In order to minimize osmotic damage, cryoprotectants having lower mol...