Seasonal variation in nuclear DNA integrity of frozen-thawed spermatozoa from Thai AI swamp buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis)

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A: Physiology Pathology Clinical Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 377-383

  Koonjaenak, S ^a,b   Johannisson, A ^a   Pongpeng, P ^a,c   Wirojwuthikul, S ^a,c   Kunavongkrit, A ^a,d   Rodriguez Martinez, H ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Thailand Department of Livestock   (Thailand)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BUFFALO; CLIMATE; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPERM; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; STANDARD; THAILAND; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BUFFALOES; CLIMATE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; SEASONS; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOZOA; THAILAND;

BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS;

EID: 34548129945     PISSN: 0931184X     EISSN: 14390442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0442.2007.00946.x     Document Type: Article

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