Male fertility status is associated with DNA methylation signatures in sperm and transcriptomic profiles of bovine preimplantation embryos

Table 1 Development of embryos derived from high and low SCR sires

	Total oocytes	Mean cleavage rate	Mean blastocyst rate
High	2962	70.28% (50.7–84.3)	29.41% (12.7–42.1)
Low	2795	72.74% (61.9–83.6)	27.01% (13.1–36.6)

Embryonic development is represented by the mean rate and the range across 2 IVF replicates per bull, with n = 6 high and n = 6 low SCR bulls. No significant differences were observed for any development measure between high vs. low fertility sires

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