Seminal vesicle secretion of african catfish, its composition, its behaviour in water and saline solutions and its influence on gamete fertilizability

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 301, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 745-755

  Mansour, Nabil ^a,b   Lahnsteiner, Franz ^a   Patzner, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEIN; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CHEMISTRY; COLORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SECRETION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CATFISHES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; COLORIMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OVUM; SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEINS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOZOA; WATER;

CATFISH; CLARIAS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS;

EID: 4644356942     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.94     Document Type: Article

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