Testicular development and its relationship to semen production in Murrah buffalo bulls

Theriogenology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-34

  Pant, H C ^a,c   Sharma, R K ^c   Patel, S H ^a   Shukla, H R ^a   Mittal, A K ^a   Kasiraj, R ^a   Misra, A K ^b   Prabhakar, J H ^a  

^a Sabarmati Ashram Gaushala   (India)

^b G B PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Buffalo bulls; Scrotal circumference; Selection; Semen production; Testicular development

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; BUFFALO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCROTUM; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BREEDING; BUFFALOES; MALE; SCROTUM; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS;

BOS TAURUS; BUBALUS;

EID: 0038814824     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(02)01037-3     Document Type: Article

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