Follicle turnover and pregnancy rates following oestrus synchronization protocols in Mediterranean Italian buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis)

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 443-447

  Presicce, G A ^a   Senatore, E M ^a   De Santis, G ^b   Bella, A ^c  

^a ARSIAL   (Italy)

^b Istituto Sperimentale Per la Zootecnia   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BUFFALO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARITY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; ESTROUS CYCLE; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARITY; PHOTOPERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 27744563590     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2005.00606.x     Document Type: Article

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