Effect of Addition of Melatonin on the Liquid Storage (5°C) of Mithun (Bos frontalis) Semen

Table 6

DNA integrity (normality) (±S.E.) percentage for extended mithun semen containing additive at different storage times.

Additives	Storage period
	0 h	6 h	12 h	24 h	30 h
Control	75.01 ± 1.64^ab	68.32 ± 1.93^a	60.18 ± 1.51^b	45.82 ± 1.96^b	38.09 ± 2.06^a
MT 1 mM	77.86 ± 1.50^bc	72.52 ± 1.44^b	63.84 ± 1.70^bc	50.89 ± 1.93^c	42.71 ± 1.72^b
MT 2 mM	78.93 ± 1.45^c	74.19 ± 1.46^b	65.29 ± 1.95^c	53.22 ± 1.69^c	44.06 ± 1.55^b
MT 3 mM	83.93 ± 1.31^d	80.24 ± 1.39^c	71.80 ± 1.97^d	60.18 ± 1.41^d	48.73 ± 2.00^c
MT 4 mM	73.59 ± 1.60^a	68.56 ± 1.62^a	54.87 ± 1.96^a	38.88 ± 1.32^a	35.67 ± 1.28^a

Within columns means with different letters (a, b, c, d) differ significantly (P < 0.05).