@article {10.3844/ajavsp.2021.90.98, article_type = {journal}, title = {Biotic and Abiotic Factors of Sperm nDNA Fragmentation in Farm Animals}, author = {Iolchiev, Baylar and Volkova, Natalya and Klenovitskiy, Pavel and Bagirov, Vugar and Khusnetdinova, Neilia and Yuri, Prytkov and Tadzhieva, Anna and Silanteva, Anastasia}, volume = {16}, number = {1}, year = {2021}, month = {Mar}, pages = {90-98}, doi = {10.3844/ajavsp.2021.90.98}, url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajavsp.2021.90.98}, abstract = {Infertility and subfertility are among the global challenges of our time. Fertility in livestock farming is not only biologically important, it is also economically important. The aim of this study was to study the effect of these factors on sperm chromatin nucleus and to assess the impact of the fragmentation index degree on bull reproductive performance. The influence of abiotic factors such as ambient temperature, the level of geomagnetic activity and the biotic factor-infectious diseases of male reproductive organs - was studied. At high ambient temperatures (28-30°C), the proportion of sperm with damaged DNA increased by 70% compared to temperatures below 15°C. A Multivariate Analysis Of Variance (MANOVA) confirmed the influence of the geomagnetic activity factor on the degree of nuclear DNA fragmentation in bull sperm cells (level p}, journal = {American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences}, publisher = {Science Publications} }