Morphometric classification of Spanish thoroughbred stallion sperm heads

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 374-378

  Hidalgo, Manuel ^a   Rodríguez, Inmaculada ^a   Dorado, Jesús ^a   Soler, Carles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ASMA; Sperm morphometry; Sperm subpopulations; Stallion semen

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; SPAIN; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HORSES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SPAIN; SPERM HEAD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36549044514     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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