Do parameters of seminal quality correlate with the results of on-farm inseminations in rabbits?

Theriogenology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1130-1141

  Lavara, Raquel ^a   Mocé, Eva ^a,b,c   Lavara, Felipe ^a   Viudes De Castro, María Pilar ^b   Vicente, José Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

CASA; Fertility; Rabbit; Semen quality; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RABBIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EQUIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 23944451571     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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