Infertile boars with knobbed and immotile short-tail sperm defects in the Finnish Yorkshire breed

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 690-695

  Kopp, C ^a   Sironen, A ^b   Ijas R ^c   Taponen, J ^a   Vilkki, J ^b   Sukura, A ^a   Andersson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Breeding Service Cooperative   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TESTIS;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; BREEDING; INFERTILITY, MALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; REPRODUCTION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TESTIS;

SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 56049091483     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00971.x     Document Type: Article

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