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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Inguran, Llc, Navasota, TX (US);
Inventors:
Kenneth Michael Evans, College Station, TX (US);
Thomas B. Gilligan, College Station, TX (US);
Clara Gonzalez-Marin, College Station, TX (US);
Assignee:
Inguran, LLC, Navasota, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/50 (2006.01); G01N 21/64 (2006.01); C12N 5/076 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/5005 (2013.01); C12N 5/061 (2013.01); G01N 21/6428 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6432 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6441 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of sex sorting sperm is disclosed. The sperm may be stained with a DNA selective fluorescent dye, which fluoresces when excited, a dead quenching dye, which selectively quenches fluorescence emitted by the DNA selective fluorescent dye within the membrane of compromised sperm, and a split enhancing dye. The stained sperm may then sorted into one or more gender enriched subpopulations of viable sperm.