The correlation between bull sperm head dimensions and mitochondrial helix length

Abstract

The objective of this study was to find the relationship between bull sperm head dimensions, elongation, ellipticity and mitochondrial helix length in order to find a parameter for the measurement of sperm motion. Sperm cells were obtained from Holstein bulls and supravital stained with Nigrosin-Eosin then smeared on replicate slides. Sperm head length, head width, elongation, ellipticity and mitochondrial length were measured as 14.25±0.17, 7.27±0.23, 0.32±0.09, 1.98±0.18 and 20.30±0.15, respectively. But no statistically important correlations were found between these traits and mitochondrial lengths. © Medwell Journals, 2010.