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Authors
Keles, Esin
Malama, Eleni https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1433-7336
Bozukova, Siyka
Siuda, Mathias
Wyck, Sarah
Witschi, Ulrich
Bauersachs, Stefan
Bollwein, Heinrich
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies, Republic of Turkey (1416)
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Article History
Received: 29 June 2020
Accepted: 24 November 2020
First Online: 7 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The cryopreserved bovine sperm doses used in this study were commercially produced and made available by Swissgenetics (Swissgenetics, Meielenfeldweg 12, CH-3052 Zollikofen BE, Switzerland; ). The sperm donors were owned by Swissgenetics, housed in the Swissgenetics Semen Production Center in CH-5243 Mülligen AG, Switzerland and routinely used for commercial bovine semen production. No additional animal handling or treatment were required for the acquirement of the sperm samples. Thus, according to the European, Swiss federal and cantonal legislation, a study approval of animal use for research purposes was not required. In addition, the present study had no effect on the well-being and fate of sperm donors.
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: UW and SW were employees of Swissgenetics (Swissgenetics, Meielenfeldweg 12, CH-3052 Zollikofen BE, Switzerland; ) at the time of the conception of the study, generation and analysis of the data. The biological material and data needed for the realization of the study are a property of and were made available from Swissgenetics. StB was an associate editor of the BMC Genomics journal at the time the study was realized.
