Effect of sperm concentration, medium osmolality and oocyte storage on artificial fertilisation success in a myobatrachid frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis)

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 347-354

  Edwards, Dan L ^a   Mahony, M J ^b   Clulow, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL FUSION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FROG; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DONATION; OSMOLALITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS WEIGHT; TOAD;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MALE; OOCYTES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LIMNODYNASTES; LIMNODYNASTES TASMANIENSIS; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 3442886541     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD02079     Document Type: Article

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