Determinants of sperm quality and fertility in domestic species

Reproduction

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-17

  Petrunkina, Anna M ^a   Waberski, D ^a   Gunzel Apel A R ^a   Topfer Petersen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL COUNT; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL SWELLING; CELL VOLUME; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOMESTIC SPECIES; FERTILIZATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SUBFERTILITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BREEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SEMEN; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34547851649     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0046     Document Type: Review

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