Sperm morphology and chromatin integrity in Swedish warmblood stallions and their relationship to pregnancy rates

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Morrell, Jane M ^a   Johannisson, Anders ^b   Dalin, Anne Marie ^a   Hammar, Linda ^a   Sandebert, Thomas ^b   Rodriguez Martinez, Heriberto ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Box 7011 ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS; EQUIDAE; PYRUS; SUIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHROMATIN; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORSE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SWEDEN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HORSES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; SWEDEN;

EID: 39449097487     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-50-2     Document Type: Article

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