Production of lambs after the transfer of fresh and cryopreserved in vitro produced embryos from prepubertal lamb oocytes and unsorted and sex-sorted frozen-thawed spermatozoa

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 454-461

  Morton, K M ^a   Catt, S L ^b   Hollinshead, F K ^a   Maxwell, W M C ^a   Evans, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Sydney IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL SEPARATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL SEPARATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEXUAL MATURATION; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

LAMB; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 11144347871     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2004.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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