Natural Mediterranean photoperiod does not affect the main parameters of boar-semen quality analysis

Theriogenology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 934-946

  Rivera, M Montserrat ^a   Quintero Moreno, Armando ^a   Barrera, Xavier ^b   Palomo, M Jesús ^a   Rigau, Teresa ^a   Rodríguez Gil, Joan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Semen Cardona   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boar semen; Mediterranean photoperiod

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHOTOPERIOD; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 23044501455     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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