Sperm mobility: A quantitative trait of the domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 379-384

  Froman, David P ^a   Feltmann, Allen J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALYCULIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; TESTIS WEIGHT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AGING; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; CELL RESPIRATION; CHICKENS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLYCOLYSIS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031933746     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.2.379     Document Type: Article

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