Seeking mathematical strategies in sperm function analysis: Between scylla and charybdis?

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-133

  Petrunkina, A M ^a   Gunzel Apel A R ^a   Topfer Petersen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANIMALIA; SCYLLA;

EID: 0037386889     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0531.2003.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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