Effect of insemination with doses of 2 or 15 million frozen-thawed spermatozoa and semen deposition site on pregnancy rate in dairy cows

Theriogenology

Volumn 61, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 1583-1588

  Andersson, Magnus ^a   Taponen, Juhani ^a   Koskinen, Erkki ^a   Dahlbom, Merja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AI Cooperative Sisämaan Jalostus   (Finland)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Insemination technique; Low dose insemination; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HEAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HEAT; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 1542350000     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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