Association of fertility with numbers of antral follicles within a follicular wave during the oestrous cycle in beef cattle

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-342

  Starbuck Clemmer, M J ^a,b   Hernandez Fonseca, H ^c   Ahmad, N ^d   Seidel, G ^a   Inskeep, E K ^a,e  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c University of Julia   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^e G044 Agricultural Sciences Bldg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BREEDING; CATTLE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 34447288448     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00786.x     Document Type: Article

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