Reproduction in the water buffalo

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 24-32

  Presicce, G A ^a  

^a ARSIAL Centro Regionale Per la Zootecnia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BUFFALO; CLONING; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CLONING, ORGANISM; ESTRUS; FEMALE; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SELECTION (GENETICS);

BUBALUS;

EID: 34547696784     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00907.x     Document Type: Review

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