Comparison of computer-assisted sperm motility analysis parameters in semen from Belgian Blue and Holstein-Friesian Bulls

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-161

  Hoflack, Geert ^a   Opsomer, G ^a   Rijsselaere, T ^a   Van Soom, A ^a   Maes, D ^a   De Kruif, A ^a   Duchateau, L ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM HEAD; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

FRIESIA;

EID: 33847365453     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00745.x     Document Type: Article

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