TY - JOUR AU - Hiltpold, Maya AU - Kadri, Naveen Kumar AU - Janett, Fredi AU - Witschi, Ulrich AU - Schmitz-Hsu, Fritz AU - Pausch, Hubert PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/30 TI - Autosomal recessive loci contribute significantly to quantitative variation of male fertility in a dairy cattle population JO - BMC Genomics SP - 225 VL - 22 IS - 1 AB - Cattle are ideally suited to investigate the genetics of male fertility. Semen from individual bulls is used for thousands of artificial inseminations for which the fertilization success is monitored. Results from the breeding soundness examination and repeated observations of semen quality complement the fertility evaluation for each bull. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07523-3 DO - 10.1186/s12864-021-07523-3 ID - Hiltpold2021 ER -