New technologies for the study of carnivore reproduction

Theriogenology

Volumn 66, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 1729-1736

  Durrant, Barbara S ^a   Ravida, Nicole ^a   Spady, Thomas ^a   Cheng, Alice ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivore; Infrared thermography; LH; Ursid; Vaginal cytology

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEAR; CYTOLOGY; DOG; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OVULATION DETECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; THERMOGRAPHY; URINE; VAGINA; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANIMALS; DOGS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OVULATION DETECTION; PREGNANCY; THERMOGRAPHY; URSIDAE; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; URSIDAE;

EID: 33748543564     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2006.02.046     Document Type: Article

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