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Loide Valadão, Helena Moreira da Silva and Fernando Moreira da Silva\* Faculty of Agrarian Sciences and Environment, CITA-A (Research Centre for Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Technology of the Azores), Animal Reproduction, University of the Azores, Angra do Heroismo, Portugal

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