Effect of leucaena and gliricidia leaf meals on the seminal characteristics, testis weights and seminiferous tubule diameters of rabbits

Animal Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 173-178

  Herbert, Udo ^a   Ozoje, Michael O ^b   Adejumo, David O ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Forage tree legume; Rabbit; Semen

Indexed keywords

GLIRICIDIA; LEUCAENA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 24944564571     PISSN: 16273583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/animres:2005017     Document Type: Article

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