Embryo viability, duration of gestation and birth weight in sheep after transfer of in vitro matured and in vitro fertilized zygotes cultured in vitro or in vivo

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 175-181

  Holm, P ^a,c   Walker, S K ^b   Seamark, R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATION PERIOD; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE TUBE MUCOSA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0029785261     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1070175     Document Type: Article

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