The horse genome project - Sequence based insights into male reproductive mechanisms

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 45-50

  Leeb, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOME; HORSE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; HORSES; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM MATURATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34547681227     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00897.x     Document Type: Review

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