Multivariate cluster analysis regression procedures as tools to identify motile sperm subpopulations in rabbit semen and to predict semen fertility and litter size

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 312-319

  Quintero Moreno, A ^a,b   Rigau, T ^a   Rodriguez Gil J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FERTILITY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RABBIT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LITTER SIZE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RABBITS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34248550685     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00785.x     Document Type: Article

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