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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 70, Issue 1 263-272, Copyright © 1992 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Female traits, ovary and follicle characteristics, and the conditional probability of normal oocyte development after superovulation of beef cows

R. C. Greer, R. B. Staigmiller and J. J. Parrish
Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman 59717.

The proportion of transferable beef embryos obtained after superovulation, follicle aspiration, and in vitro maturation and fertilization has been small. To seek possible explanations, cows on different planes of nutrition were treated with exogenous gonadotropin and oocytes were isolated from their ovaries. The record for each oocyte included characteristics of the follicle, ovary, and cow from which it was obtained and the response to in vitro maturation, fertilization, and development. The sample was used to obtain estimates of the relationships among the variables. The logistic function with the probability of normal development as the dependent variable was the basic equation of the statistical model. When an explanatory variable was itself a result of the biological system, an equation explaining variation therein was added to the model. Had equations representing endogenous regressors not been added to the model a simple, single equation would have represented oocyte development response; given an oocyte at aspiration only one variable, cumulus quantity, was found to condition the probability of normal development directly. However, the complete model included four additional equations: 1) the probability that an oocyte was recovered at aspiration was conditional on the plane of nutritional treatment and progesterone concentration in follicular fluid; 2) cumulus quantity was conditional on the presence on a corpus luteum, follicle size, and progesterone concentration; 3) progesterone concentration was dependent on plane of nutrition; and 4) corpus luteum was conditional on plane of nutrition. The estimated model provided some insight into the complexity of oocyte development response and the role nutrition may play.




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