Seasonal emission of seminal coagulum and in vivo sperm dynamics in the black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi)

Theriogenology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 466-472

  Hernandez Lopez L ^a   Cerda Molina, A L ^a   Paez Ponce L D ^a   Mondragon Ceballos R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Female reproductive tract; Seasonality; Semen; Seminal coagulum; Spider monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ATELIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EJACULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; ATELINAE; EJACULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; SEASONS; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; UTERUS;

ARANEAE; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; PRIMATES;

EID: 38749108861     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

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