Lifetime semen production in a cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)

Zoo Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 359-366

  Durrant, Barbara S ^a   Millard, Susan E ^a   Zimmerman, Dawn M ^a   Lindburg, Donald G ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial vagina; Gonadal senescence; Sexual maturity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035732747     PISSN: 07333188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/zoo.1034     Document Type: Article

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