Effect of vaginal and cervical deposition of semen on the fertility of sheep inseminated with frozen-thawed semen

Veterinary Record

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 372-375

  Paulenz, H ^a   Soderquist L ^b   Adnoy T ^c   Nordstoga, A B ^a   Berg, K Andersen ^c  

^a Team Semin   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 17144410417     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.156.12.372     Document Type: Article

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