Subadult individuals were all black-coated wild boar whose carcass weighed <50 kg, supposedly corresponding to 13- to 24-month-old animals.
Fertile boars were always penned in the vicinity.
These findings indicate that freezing does not necessarily induce capacitation of boar spermatozoa.
Indeed, a high specificity (94%) has been recorded in young wild boar.
Trematodes were not recovered from any of wild boars examined.
The first involves a community-based scheme with boar rotation, while the second is a commercially run nucleus breeding scheme.
Isolation and characterization of membrane vesicles from human and boar spermatozoa: methods using nitrogen cavitation and ionophore induced vesiculation.
During the same period 15 593 spleens and 8013 sera were analysed from hunted wild boar.
