Assessment of bull sperm fertilizing ability

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 515-517

  Rodriguez Martinez, H ^a   Larsson, B ^a   Zhang, B R ^a   Soderquist L ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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