Skip to main content
Download PDF
  • Research
  • Published:

A new reciprocal translocation in a subfertile bull

Genetics Selection Evolution volume 32, Article number: 589 (2000) Cite this article

Abstract

Three bulls of the Montbéliarde breed that exhibited fertility rates lower than 30% following more than 400 artificial inseminations were examined. Semen quality (sperm motility and morphology) from these bulls was normal. Fertilizing ability estimated from in vitro embryo production results was studied for two of them. In vitro production rate was very low for one bull (A) and normal for the other (B). Cytogenetic analyses were carried out on the three bulls using chromosome banding techniques. These analyses revealed a reciprocal translocation (12;17)(q22;q14) in bull B. Based on family analyses, the hypothesis of a de novo origin of this rearrangement is proposed.

(To access the full article, please see PDF)

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Unité mixte de recherches ENVT-INRA de cytogénétique des populations animales, 23, chemin des Capelles, 31076, Toulouse Cedex 3, France

    Alain Ducos, Anne Séguéla, Alain Pinton, Hélène Berland, Corinne Brun-Baronnat & Roland Darré

  2. Union nationale des coopératives d'élevage et d'insémination artificielle (U.N.C.E.I.A.), BP 65, 94703, Maisons Alfort Cedex, France

    Pascal Dumont, Brigitte Marquant-Le Guienne & Patrice Humblot

  3. ENFA, BP 87, 31326, Castanet-Tolosan Cedex 3, France

    Aafke Darré

  4. SGQA, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, 78352, Jouy-en-Josas Cedex, France

    Didier Boichard

Authors
  1. Alain Ducos
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Pascal Dumont
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Anne Séguéla
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Alain Pinton
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Hélène Berland
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Corinne Brun-Baronnat
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Aafke Darré
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. Brigitte Marquant-Le Guienne
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. Patrice Humblot
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. Didier Boichard
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  11. Roland Darré
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Alain Ducos.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Ducos, A., Dumont, P., Séguéla, A. et al. A new reciprocal translocation in a subfertile bull. Genet Sel Evol 32, 589 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-32-6-589

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-32-6-589

Keywords

Genetics Selection Evolution

ISSN: 1297-9686