Sperm transport and storage in the agile Antechinus (Antechinus agilis)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1353-1359

  Shimmin, G A ^a   Jones, M ^a,b   Taggart, D A ^a   Temple Smith, P D ^a,b,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Zoological Board of Victoria ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; STORAGE;

ANIMALS; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERM COUNT; SPERM TRANSPORT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032969867     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.6.1353     Document Type: Article

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