Research Article
Effect of Addition of Melatonin on the Liquid Storage (5°C) of Mithun (Bos frontalis) Semen
Table 2
Mean (±S.E.) viability percentage for mithun semen following storage at 5°C for different storage times.
| Additives | Storage period | 0 h | 6 h | 12 h | 24 h | 30 h |
| Control | 74.10 ± 1.70a | 66.77 ± 1.49a | 50.69 ± 1.53ab | 41.04 ± 1.68a | 35.90 ± 1.57a | MT 1 mM | 74.70 ± 1.51a | 70.76 ± 1.50b | 54.34 ± 1.34bc | 44.41 ± 1.21b | 39.94 ± 1.53b | MT 2 mM | 76.06 ± 1.54a | 71.41 ± 1.28b | 56.69 ± 1.79c | 46.49 ± 1.23bc | 41.10 ± 1.22b | MT 3 mM | 79.14 ± 1.47b | 76.19 ± 1.70c | 61.28 ± 1.84d | 48.93 ± 1.97c | 45.72 ± 1.35c | MT 4 mM | 73.84 ± 1.31a | 68.88 ± 1.51ab | 48.43 ± 2.04a | 38.27 ± 1.48a | 33.91 ± 1.40a |
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Within columns means with different letters (a, b, c, d) differ significantly (P < 0.05).
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