Kawahara T

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observational 2025
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-025-27867-0

Assisted hatching (AH) is a reproductive technique that artificially thins or breaches the zona pellucida to facilitate hatching. Despite its widespread use, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that AH improves pregnancy outcomes, pa…

lab-animal 2015
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131283

Conception rates among dairy cows in Japan have declined in recent decades. To enhance our understanding of the genes involved in conception rates, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using 822 Holsteins and identified a sin…