Sperm cryopreservation of a live-bearing fish, Xiphophorus couchianus: Male-to-male variation in post-thaw motility and production of F1 hybrid offspring

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 233-239

  Yang, Huiping ^a,b   Hazlewood, Leona ^c   Walter, Ronald B ^c   Tiersch, Terrence R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial insemination; Sperm cryopreservation; Variation; Xiphophorus couchianus

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BODY HEIGHT; COLOR; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; THAWING; XIPHOPHORUS COUCHIANUS;

PISCES; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS COUCHIANUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 64149093319     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2008.10.103     Document Type: Article

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