Prediction of first season stallion fertility of 3-year-old Dutch Warmbloods with prebreeding assessment of percentage of morphologically normal live sperm

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 248-251

  Parlevliet, Joyce M ^a   Colenbrander, B ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fertility; Horse; Semen quality; Stallion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0033126616     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.1999.tb03181.x     Document Type: Article

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