Research Article
Effect of Addition of Melatonin on the Liquid Storage (5°C) of Mithun (Bos frontalis) Semen
Table 1
Mean (±S.E.) motility 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 | 70.28 ± 1.90a | 65.63 ± 1.64ab | 47.49 ± 1.86a | 35.82 ± 1.58a | 31.98 ± 1.74a | MT 1 mM | 72.92 ± 1.42ab | 68.59 ± 1.73bc | 50.22 ± 1.91ab | 40.99 ± 1.50b | 36.16 ± 1.52b | MT 2 mM | 74.77 ± 2.31bc | 69.29 ± 2.60bc | 53.37 ± 1.77bc | 43.82 ± 1.33b | 39.66 ± 1.47c | MT 3 mM | 77.37 ± 1.60c | 73.67 ± 1.68c | 56.48 ± 1.93c | 51.45 ± 1.22c | 45.77 ± 1.62d | MT 4 mM | 72.92 ± 1.42ab | 61.28 ± 2.44a | 46.87 ± 1.66a | 34.90 ± 1.69a | 31.51 ± 1.81a |
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Within columns means with different letters (a, b, c, d) differ significantly (P < 0.05).
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