Production of F1 interspecies hybrid offspring with cryopreserved sperm from a live-bearing fish, the swordtail Xiphophorus helleri

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 401-406

  Yang, Huiping ^a,b   Hazlewood, Leona ^c   Heater, Sheila J ^c   Guerrero, Paula A ^c   Walter, Ronald B ^c   Tiersch, Terrence R ^a,d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Texas State University   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Sperm; Sperm motility; Testis; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; CRYOBIOLOGY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; FISH; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GLYCOLYSIS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SWORDTAIL FISH; VIVIPARITY; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERI; ANIMAL; CHIMERA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

PISCES; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; POECILIA; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM MOTILITY; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

EID: 33847231647     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.056549     Document Type: Article

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