The spermatozoon of the African catfish: Fine structure, motility, viability and its behaviour in seminal vesicle secretion

Journal of Fish Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 545-560

  Mansour, N ^a   Lahnsteiner, F ^a   Patzner, R A ^a  

^a Institute for Zoology   (Austria)

Author keywords

African catfish; Clarias gariepinus; Motility; Seminal vesicle; Sperm structure

Indexed keywords

SPERM;

CATFISH; CLARIAS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS;

EID: 0036492213     PISSN: 00221112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfbi.2002.1869     Document Type: Article

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