Artificial reproduction of Andrias davidianus commonly use artificial injection of oxytocin and artificial insemination. Atpresent, there are three kinds of methods for artificial insemination of A.davidianus, namely dry method, dry-wet method and wet method,repectively. We compared the result of the three artificial insemination methods in this paper. The result showed that the fertilization rate
of dry-wet method was highest with 37.6%~39.4%. The second was wet method, the fertilization rate was 23.8%~25.9%. The fertilizationrate of dry moethod was lowest with 18.9%~21.8%. The result indicated that dry-wet method was the best artificial reproduction methodof A.davidianus. |