Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
In ovo sexing of chicken eggs by fluorescence spectroscopy
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
In ovo sexing of chicken eggs by fluorescence spectroscopy
Do you wish to request the book?
In ovo sexing of chicken eggs by fluorescence spectroscopy
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Journal Article
In ovo sexing of chicken eggs by fluorescence spectroscopy
2017
Overview
Culling of day-old male chicks in production of laying hen strains involves several millions of animals every year worldwide and is ethically controversial. In an attempt to provide an alternative, optical spectroscopy was investigated to determine nondestructively in ovo the sex of early embryos of the domestic chicken. The extraembryonic blood circulation system was accessed by producing a window in the egg shell and the flowing blood was illuminated with a near-infrared laser. The strong fluorescence and the weak Raman signals were acquired and spectroscopically analyzed between 800 and 1000 nm. The increase of fluorescence intensity between 3.5 and 11.5 days of incubation was found to be in agreement with the erythropoietic stages, thus enabling to identify hemoglobin as fluorescence source. Sex-related differences in the fluorescence spectrum were found at day 3.5, and principal component (PC) analysis showed that the blood of males was characterized by a specific fluorescence band located at ∼910 nm. Supervised classification of the PC scores enabled the determination of the sex of 380 eggs at day 3.5 of incubation with a correct rate up to 93% by combining the information derived from both fluorescence and Raman scattering.
Graphical abstract
The fluorescence of blood obtained in ovo by illumination of embryonic vessels with a IR laser displays spectral differences that can be employed for sexing of eggs in early stage of incubation, before onset of embryo sensitivity and without hindering its development into a healthy chick
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Animals
/ Blood
/ Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
/ Chemistry and Materials Science
/ Chickens
/ chicks
/ Culling
/ Eggs
/ Embryos
/ Female
/ fluorescence emission spectroscopy
/ Lasers
/ lighting
/ Male
/ Males
/ Medicine
/ Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
/ Sex
/ Sex Determination Analysis - methods
/ Sexes
