Laboratory semen assessment and prediction of fertility: Still Utopia?

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 312-318

  Rodriguez Martinez H ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 0042856827     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0531.2003.00436.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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