AKAP4 transcripts were recently spotted again as the top five validated transcripts significantly increased (p < 0.05) in their level of expression in good quality bull semen compared to the poor quality bulls (classification based on their conception rate).
More details in this newly publication of Singh et al. 2019 on Pubmed
AKAP4 has been largely described as a sperm quality and fertility in bulls (Peddinti et al. 2008 ; Sergeant et al. 2019)
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