Directional freezing of equine semen in large volumes

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 610-615

  Saragusty, J ^a   Gacitua, H ^a   Pettit, M T ^b   Arav, A ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b Woodhouse Farm ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZATION; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 35748954610     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00831.x     Document Type: Article

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