Reproductive patterns of stray male dogs in the tropics

Theriogenology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2084-2090

  Ortega Pacheco, A ^a   Segura Correa, J C ^a   Bolio Gonzalez, M E ^a   Jimenez Coello M ^a   Linde Forsberg, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dogs; Prolactin; Seasonality; Sperm; Tropics

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; DOG; EPIDIDYMIS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SCROTUM; SEASON; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TROPIC CLIMATE; WILD ANIMAL;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DOGS; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; PROLACTIN; REPRODUCTION; SCROTUM; SEASONS; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTOSTERONE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33846109187     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2006.04.046     Document Type: Article

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