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Inequality in Function of the Right and Left Ovaries and Uterine Horns of the Ewe¹

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Abstract

Ewes with a single corpus luteum (CL) had 61.8% of 351 CL in the right ovary; ewes with more than one CL had 55.5% of 667 in the right ovary (P=.05). Apparent percent embryo loss was 21.7 for 161 ewes with one CL in the right ovary, 26.4 for 106 ewes with one CL in the left ovary, 35.5 for 55 ewes with two CL in the right ovary, 31.0 for 87 ewes with one CL in each ovary and 40.6 for 32 ewes with two CL in the left ovary (P< .05). The percent of embryos that apparently migrated to the uterine horn on the opposite side of the body to the ovary from which the egg originated was 10.3 of 126 embryos where one CL was in the right ovary, 7.7 of 78 with one CL in the left ovary, 32.4 of 71 with two CL in the right ovary, 0 of 120 with one CL in each ovary, and 26.5 of 38 embryos where there were two CL in the left ovary.

¹ Paper No. 1084 from the Genetics Laboratory and No.456 from the Department of Meat and Animal Science. Published with the approval of the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. This work was supported in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation.

² The authors are indebted to W. C. Foote, R. A. Bellows and B. E. Howland, who in connection with their own research at the University of Wisconsin recorded the information pertinent to this study.

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