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HITHERTO, cases of sterility in the bull, where the abnormal sperm population shows a dominant sperm defect mainly or exclusively located in the spermatozoan tail, have only rarely been reported.
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BLOM, E. A New Sterilizing and Hereditary Defect (the ‘Dag Defect’) located in the Bull Sperm Tail. Nature 209, 739–740 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209739a0
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