Application and Commercialization of Flow Cytometrically Sex-Sorted Semen

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue SUPPL.2, 2008, Pages 338-346

  Rath, D ^a   Johnson, L A ^b  

^a Institute of Farm Animal Genetics   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CATTLE; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SWINE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL SEPARATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; SEMEN; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX PRESELECTION; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 56549083252     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2008.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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