Transcriptomic comparison of ovarian granulosa cells between adult sheep and prepubertal lambs

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Developmental competence of adult and lamb oocytes

Groups	No. of donors	No. of recovered oocytes	Average no. of oocytes recovered from each donor	No. of cleaved (Mean ± SEM, %)	No. of blastocysts (Mean ± SEM, %)
Adult	100	1202	12.2	823 (68.4 ± 4.9)	83/199 (40.5 ± 1.9) ^a
Lamb-2D	5	635	127	489 (76.2 ± 3.5)	59/363 (17.8 ± 1.4) ^b
Lamb-3D	5	560	112	450 (78.2 ± 9.1)	67/255 (27.9 ± 3.1) ^c

Percentage of cleaved: No. of cleaved /No. of recovered oocytes
Percentage of blastocysts: No. of blastocysts/No. of cleaved. Only parts of embryos were cultured for evaluation of their development
Values with different letters (a, b and c) within the same column are significantly different (p < 0.05)
Adult Adult ewes were treated with FSH for 3 days, Lamb-2D Lambs were FSH-treated for 2 days, Lamb-3D lambs were FSH-treated for 3 days

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