Publications by authors named "Md Rafiqul Islam Sarder"
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- Grass carp is a nonnative freshwater fish in Bangladesh, and its seed quality is declining due to issues like inbreeding and negative selection, prompting the need for improved breeding techniques.
- This study focused on optimizing sperm cryopreservation protocols to enhance the availability of quality grass carp seed, utilizing hormone-induced mature males from a broodstock developed from imported Chinese fingerlings.
- The research found that specific conditions, such as using Alsever's solution with 10% DMSO, yielded high motility rates in sperm and viable fertilization and hatching rates from cryopreserved sperm; however, further improvements are needed in these rates for commercial hatchery success.
Despite accumulating sequence data, information on the function of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in fish is scarce. In contrast to the genome organization in higher vertebrates, the polymorphic MHC class I and II genes are not linked in the teleost genome. A previous study found an MHC class II linkage group to be a major determinant in the rejection of allogeneic scales by a teleost species (Cardwell et al.
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