Ejaculate collection efficiency and post-thaw semen quality in wild-caught Griffon vultures from the Sardinian population

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Madeddu, Manuela ^a   Berlinguer, Fiammetta ^a   Ledda, Massimo ^a   Leoni, Giovanni G ^a   Satta, Valentina ^a   Succu, Sara ^a   Rotta, Andrea ^a   Pasciu, Valeria ^a   Zinellu, Angelo ^a   Muzzeddu, Marco ^b   Carru, Ciriaco ^a   Naitana, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Sardinian Board of Forestry   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; EJACULATION; MALE; MASSAGE; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; THAWING; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; COMET ASSAY; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FALCONIFORMES; ITALY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; COMET ASSAY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; FALCONIFORMES; ITALY; MALE; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 61849131759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-18     Document Type: Article

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