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GENETICAL RESEARCH
Volume 75, Issue 1, Pages 53-59Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399004085
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A total of 2122 single sperm from 35 bulls belonging to six different paternal half-sib groups were analysed with respect to two markers in the bovine pseudoautosomal region (PAR) and sex-specific loci on the X and Y chromosomes, respectively. A segregation ratio significantly different from 1:1 was observed in a test over all families, with a higher proportion of X-bearing gametes (53.5 %). The analysis of recombination conducted separately for X- and Y-bearing sperm showed that X-bearing sperm cells possess highly significant individual and between-family variability in recombination rate, whereas Y-bearing sperm show linkage homogeneity. To test whether the two phenomena are related, different logistic regression models were fitted to the data. The results show that sex ratio significantly correlates with changes in recombination rate among X-bearing but not among Y-bearing sperm. Different hypotheses to explain these observations are discussed.
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