The invention discloses a dairy cow early
embryo sex identification method, and belongs to the technical field of dairy cow breeding and breeding. The identification method comprises the following steps: (1) culturing a dairy cow
embryo to an early
blastocyst stage, starting to perform single-
embryo single-droplet culture, and after culturing until a
blastocyst cavity is formed,
punching a
blastocyst zona pellucida to promote the blastocyst to shrink and release blastocyst cavity liquid; (2) collecting blastocyst cavity liquid, and extracting embryo
free DNA in the blastocyst cavity liquid; (3) by taking the
free DNA as a template, designing a primer to amplify a specific
repetitive sequence ChrY fragment of the bull
Y chromosome; if the amplification product exists, the embryo is identified as a bull, and if the amplification product does not exist, the embryo is identified as a cow. The method can ensure that the embryo
free DNA in the obtained blastocyst cavity fluid is only derived from the embryo, and can effectively avoid embryo injury. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the copy number of the amplified target area in the bull
Y chromosome is more than 2000 times, a detection
signal can be amplified, and the detection accuracy is improved.