Evaluation of fresh and frozen-thawed semen of individual ganders by assessment of spermatozoa motility and morphology

Theriogenology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1627-1640

  Łukaszewicz, Ewa ^a   Kruszyński, Wojciech ^a  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Ganders; Spermatozoa morphology

Indexed keywords

N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GOOSE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; GEESE; MALE; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ANSER; ANSER ANSER;

EID: 0037399824     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(02)01209-8     Document Type: Article

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