Application of Artificial Insemination Technique to Eupyrene and/or Apyrene Sperm in Bombyx mori

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 196-200

  Sahara, Ken ^a   Takemura, Yoko ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inst of Silkworm Genet and Breed   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COPULATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SILKWORM; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; COPULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0141722693     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.10250     Document Type: Article

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