Surgical embryo transfer resulted in birth of live offspring in farmed blue fox

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 424-429

  Liu, Guo Shi ^a   Zhou, Guang Bin ^a,c   Zhang, Hong Hai ^b   Ma, Cheng Bao ^a   Shi, Wen Qing ^a   Zhu, Shi En ^a   Yang, Zhong Qiang ^a   Kang, Jian ^a   Jia, Li Ling ^a   Zeng, Shen Ming ^a   Tian, Jian Hui ^a   Wang, Fen ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blue fox; Embryo collection; Embryo transfer; Oestrus detection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FOX; LITTER SIZE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FOXES; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LITTER SIZE; MALE; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 40049108007     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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