Timing of mating, sperm dynamics, and ovulation in a wild population of agile Antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 283-289

  Taggart, David A ^a   Shimmin, Glenn A ^a   McCloud, Phillip ^b   Temple Smith, Peter D ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Roche Products Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c Zoological Parks and Gardens Board ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; LABORATORY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MARSUPIAL; MATING; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; SEASONS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032919991     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.283     Document Type: Article

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