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Title: Reproductive Physiology
Description: University notes on Reproductive Physiology.

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Reproductive Physiology

Ultrasonography

Holstein Dairy cow
Influence of Increasing Milk Production on
Conception Rate
%

100
90
80
70
60

kg

Conception rate, %

9000

Milk production, kg/year

8000
7000
6000
5000

50
4000
40

3000

30
20

2000
1000

10

0

1

0

1951

1975

1985

1996

from
Butler

The outcome of first
postpartum insemination
1996 - 1999

1975 - 1982

24

Objective today

Fertilisation failure
Calving Rate

Fertilisation failure

1
...
Reproductive tract differentiation
3
...
Sexual determination
Each human
cell contains __
chromosomes
Mice have 20 pairs

Chromosomes contain the genetic material
In mammals the Y chromosome is
chromosome and determines _________

the

sex

In birds and amphibians the female carries the sex
chromosome (W)

CAT = 38
HUMANS = 46
SHEEP = ___
Each human gamete
22 autosomes
1 sex chromosome

CATTLE = ___ HORSES
= 64

Gene(s)
___ gene (_____ determining Region on the ____
chromosome)
...
Reproductive tract differentiation

Reproductive tract differentiation

2

___________

Start with
_______

= male

______ and
______

srY gene codes for a
protein called testisdetermining factor

Reproductive Tract Differentiation

Control of tract differentiation
Rat/Rabbit

_________ duct

Fetal

Developed at birth
Mullerian duct Wolffian duct
(female)

( male )

normal male

No

Yes

normal female

Yes

No

castrate male

Yes

No

Surgery

= female

castrate female

Yes

No
...


Female development

Freemartin

3

Free = _________; martin = bovine
Female:

Freemartin = a sterile heifer that is born twin to a male

No _______ hormones = no inhibition of the female
system or stimulation of the male system

Why?

Therefore the female phenotype develops

Fusion of ____________ membranes

Later _______ assists in the development of the
reproductive tract
...


Freemartin
Hormones from the male fetus inhibit
reproductive tract development in the
female fetus

Foster OVC, U of Guelph

Freemartin reproductive tract
Freemartin
Diagnosis = freemartin has a short vagina

Female = __________________ Male

=

____________ fertility

Other litter bearing species?
Foster OVC, U of Guelph

3
...
Behaviour differentiation
Rodents
At birth

Adult behaviour

Male ___________

Females have reproductive
cycles males do not

Female

Female

Castrate male Female (feminized)
Male and female
sexual behaviour is
quite different Why /
How ??

Female + testosterone

____

(androgenised)

_________ male + testosterone _________
Testes control maleness, otherwise female
Title: Reproductive Physiology
Description: University notes on Reproductive Physiology.