Role of sperm motility and acrosome integrity in the filtration of bovine semen

Theriogenology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 513-520

  Anzar, M ^a,c   Graham, E F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Bovine; Filtration; Motility; Semen

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

EID: 0012816866     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0093-691X(95)00387-N     Document Type: Article

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