In vitro and in vivo survival of bisected sheep embryos derived from frozen-thawed unsorted, and frozen-thawed sex-sorted and refrozen-thawed ram spermatozoa

Theriogenology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1333-1345

  Morton, Katherine M ^a   Rowe, Anthony M ^a   Chis Maxwell, W M ^a   Evans, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bisection; Embryo splitting; In vitro embryo production; Sex preselection; Sperm sexing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL SEPARATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX DETERMINATION; SHEEP; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL SEPARATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEAT; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SHEEP; SPERMATOZOA;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33644893123     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2005.08.009     Document Type: Article

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